Erica Jong - Catching Up lyrics

We sit on a rock to allow our souls to catch up with us. We have been traveling a long time. Behind us are forests of books with pages green as leaves. A blood sun stares over the horizon. Our souls are slow. They walk miles behind our long shadows. They do not dance. They need all their strength merely to follow us. Sometimes we run too fast or trip climbing the rotten rungs in fame's ladder. Our souls know it leads nowhere. They are not afraid of losing us.