Catalyst - Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers, Invalids

On self-improvement

We spent no longer than a day

Gathering up the things we never use

And no fewer than three weeks letting it go

Things we no longer need

That used to mean everything

On self-reliance

We set our alarm to sound first-thing when the sun rose

Placed it all the way across the room

(the necessity of progress)

But by the time it was hung high into the day

We couldn’t hear a thing so far away

So in our beds we stayed

And woke up late

On naiveté

I thought you’d stay

On keeping distance

We concede

It relents

We kept secrets

On honesty

I asked if it wasn’t so much worse idling unknowingly

In honesty, not really

On solidarity

Pictures I thought I’d put away in a drawer to keep them safe

But I looked every single place

Even those where they’d never have been saved

They were in the drawer the entire time

Just didn’t see it right away

On perseverance

We couldn’t grow

But we planted anyway

On predilection

Every time I drove past your window

I still, each time, passed it by

On reservation

«How can you tell me that everything will work out?»

There is no sort of source for this sort of thing

Measuring our strengths by the way we turned out limited

On acceptance

I left the light in the basement on