All You Kept FreeThis piece of evidence
Rendered useless
All you kept-under threats-prep
Of a burial under a cloud
All the chains you broke
Evoked the mirth of spring
So here they arrived at haven
And thought they could stay
AmendedWill work and try
To heal myself
Will repair and weld
Together the pieces
Will quench and drown
And fires i have lit
Will free the birds
I have caged in
ArmedI do not know why
I am giving this to you
But here it is;
The number of days left
Instead of an ocean of time
I painted a house
- Around you -
And locked the door
At the Green Country ChapelThe date was set
by failed harvest
And when it hit home
Invitations were sent
for their ghosts
To arrive at winter solstice
As the day rolled over
Breathe EmptinessWorship decay
And pray the light to come
Only echoes answering
This is the dawn
Of the new night
Distorted view of love
Defenseless
Code of SurrenderAccusations. And shame
of the kind you would deny
if it did not shine like a light
obeying no switch or hour
of each corroded day
passing
like shadows over heart
Down To The Color Of The EyeSo much slower than our march they flew
Our guardian angels who would now hear
The true words
We would march across the plains and burn
down all green and live
So bulletproof it was
So courageously we invented the night
ExhaledLying to liars
And stealing from thieves
Issued a feather to build ourselves a faith
They stayed and broke the deal
All the fists we saw in the air
Were. opened into hands
And now hone grinds like grain
IncendereA strange generation-now at watch
By the rain of fire
Decommissioned-from the drag of days
From mirth to grave
Like seed you would cast the hope i always
Wanted to know;
To reach inside for its heart-to bring it
Instead Of Sand And StoneOrdered
To design and build from sand
And stone a maze
That would be fine and oh, prime.
A maze that would meet
The demand;
Demand of make disappear.
King Of JulyAs if catching a wave,
Only to sink down
In hope of no
Floor on the way.
As if in one refined click
A fate would be sealed
Without a single hint of a warning.
Lathing A New ManI know
As well as
My own name
They will never
Tire
Our shallow
Enemies
Of forging new villains
Like Mute CompanionsDismantled our will
Once brave and firm
We took it apart
Like summertime sleep
We fooled it away
Dismantled our speech
Once clear and so true
Nights In White SatinNights in white satin, never reaching the end,
Letters I've written, never meaning to send.
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before.
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore.
'Cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you.
Gazing at people, some hand in hand,
Of Birth For PassingTo escape
With the rays of the sun
And the mist of cold
Climb into one
Last view
Of a garden
Dressed in winter's cleanest
White
Out of the WindNow and again
Would come the invisible
Out of the nether in
Her finest dress
Breaking free to haunt
The eyes that saw
Then silver wires
The DividedHow come were this remote
When we should feel the opposite
Nailed to the heart I am
Counting the days in between
Buried deep
Somewhere beneath there is
A calloused heart
The White PlateauThe feeling
Could almost be worn
As easily
As wearing a suit.
Have become
Blind in the search for light.
Plateau of white
This Longitude Of SleepIn these eastern parts of a war,
As threats drifting with days
Built up like clouds meant
To shroud all light - But this one here.
But as threats,
They never had much
Of a real thunder to them.
In the parts untouched by the war
Tide ShiftWhat are those fangs in your flesh?
Why are those teeth of fear
Gnawing in?
What are those words that you
Wouldn't hurt a fly?
Like the promise of a lower tax and
VerminHow long until
The weak light will come
I can hear them crawling
If the sun would reappear
It could slowly, slowly make them disappear
Devour my flesh, devour