I'll depart, when the lights overhead have all but one burnt out
In a slow procession dragging every shadow, every doubt
What pioneers precede me? Cloven footprints left behind
On a land base cut so clear, white trails blazed across the skies
Some spin wild in praise, most just need to save ourselves:
A people out of time, who have lost the will to HOWL...
From four legs
Fortnights
Withhold the rest begged of weary eyes
What rot-refusing cemetery
Pines for all our kind?
Teach me to scream
In volatile whispers
(SIGNALING FIRE
Teach me to wake inside your dream and stay forever
(SIGNALING FLAME)
I could wage your wars
I could cast your spells
I could preach your meaning
(SIGNALING FIRE)
Teach me the notes to sing
Your vengeance into being...
From two wings
On high
Patterned flight ignites an ink-blot sky
What fearful blackened symmetry
Reflects our soul's design?
This is no place for the noble or young
Born with the taste of blood on our tongues
TO FORGET / TO FORGIVE
With a hatchet buried deep
(Under Lapsing Time)
Illumination lost its bearing
Eliminated light:
Left her bereaved
Kaleidoscopic grief
Tightening its noose
Now decoherent speech
Is all that rings as true
Force your words through the gale
Of circling fan blades
Just to hear another voice...
Resonate
God awful proof
Crying out
Paralyzed
Poisoned heart still beating
Short of breath
Love lies bleeding
Purified
Cauldron over-boiling
Vine of souls
Serpent uncoiling
EVER UNFOLD
Trapped and tamed in this
Thinning wilderness
Just skin and bone
We dared
To let the demons in
Motion sickness setting in
Crystal waters darkening
Hair raised on our necks...
We drew
Our breath
Out of the thick air
Deviate
Wandering kiss
Co-create
Seething abyss
(Re)integrate
Exiled arts
Bi-locate
Tear us apart
So long, eternal youth-
Bare feet and empty hands
I'm off to find the Truth
In this pathless land
To command
My nightmare
"Speak your name"
(in vain)
Regards, untimely d**h-
The urge to understand
Merely a lapsing crest
Bound for the sand
If I should stray
And disappear
I fear what quantum scaffolding would be revealed
And If only I knew
At creations end the fog would lift and clear
Unveiling:
Silent Sovereignty Surfacing
Pulverized
Wounded heart stops beating
Between lives
Patterns repeating
In verses
To sing
The Seeds Of Rebirth
TO BE SEWED:
In chorus
To sing
Sing of hope
Upwind, a budding Spring
Parallel
Galaxies of light
Synchronize
Tattered edges overlap
Downstream, the Nettle's sting
Winding down
Vortices of time
Narrowing
Tired movements come to pa**
In violent symphonies
Let us sing it into being
The ancient corridors
Are closing
Our hexagonal hives
Collapsing
The antique pathways
Corroding
Our holographic lives
Enfolding on themselves
Shudder in the quake
Of pending Eschatons
Hatchet buried deep
With a paradise we lost
FORGIVEN / FORGOTTEN
Drafting my swan song