No One Else Can Help You Ride the Wave

No one else can help you ride the wave
Not the people on shore
not the person paddling out
not the pundit pedaling lies
not the fisherman casting lines
Not the guise you hide behind

No one else can help you ride the wave
Not your thoughts that don’t matter
Not the teenage chatter
Not last night’s fight
Not the alt left or alt right
Not the pelicans in flight

No one else can help you ride the wave
not the whiskey in your glass
not the shape of that girl’s ass
not the waves already past
not some fad that’s not going to last

No one else can help you ride the wave
you must save yourself
stretched out on your board
struggling the way Jesus never could