Springs of Gilead
Facing the truth
To withstand this horror
to find a cure for the chaos within
What is to soothe
the full moon terror
the sorcerous light that pierces my stirred skin
The veil of night
Stole every path
waypoints hidden
in its mist forbidden...
...shall I ever be forgiven?
An overburdened mind
and the garden it created
this autumnal prison intended for its very soul.
It becomes pallid
But it isn't fading
The beacon that we're creating
finds me burried in dust
Eroded by lust
unsatiated craving
this sordid guilt
makes me more human than I could believe
And I need a remedy
for this unfair tragedy
An opium for guilt
Towers of unjustice have I built
And I need to reach
the springs of Gilead
a mournful Iliad
with no help at my side...
Birds
Down below
A totem of a crow
A cadaver of a lark
As the nature all turns dark
Brace your vulnerable shells
As the birds return revange
Faces escape estranged
The foreboding evening knell
No hiding from the shadow
No neglecting the named burrows
Lain to rest in the terminal divine
To forever close our eyne
Black clouds move swiftly
'Cross the greyness of the firmament
They are bound centreward
Growing denser - hope is but a spark
On our horizon
Of late
All I read
Is regret
Hester
Instrumental
We, Ourselves
Oh, infamy!
Oh, indignity
of a breathing judgement gathered
'round the very object of their
common envy
Rotten perfidy
Shows no lenity...
On their bloody altar they shall
Sacrifice all solemn beauty
to hypocrisy
Oh, inequity
pregnant with tragedy
the need to feed their gapping guts
with their fill of tender hearts -
- Sweet insanity
Fervent hatred
Thirst for punishment
Hours of shared adultery
Justified with written low
That we uphold
Oh, Lord!
Oh, souls sold,
Never will ye be delivered
Where you hope to find a shelter,
Nor be absolved
Wage a war on frailty
Brutal lynch of sanity
Epilogue's predictable
We, ourselves - despicable
Greasy with the stains of ignobility
The Immortal Kind
Stern face of immortality
Ancestor of all royalty
Occupies a land where to feed
Then creates a nest to breed
An odyssey, or an ordeal?
Wisdom is as light as a feather
Spreading wide it's wings of steal
Casting shadows o'er the roof of ether
Firmament is home to the sublime
Whose collapse would be a timeless crime
Critics to the ways the nature works
End up deep down gnawed at by worms
Monument to a primal majesty
Little sense in a plotted hierarchy
Sparrows rough it through the winter
Swallows dance away far yonder
Left alone to decay on the fields of Yore
A marvelous legacy of a carrion...
Satiate the Craving
One life under a terrible depression
Crawling feebly towards an obscured end
Suppressed by the burden of the black book dogma
Forced into an unsurmountable land
One path chosen by or for the man
A sufferer, a martyr shunned by the mass compliance
One truth hidden and falsely forbidden
By the beasty rascals frenzied with survival
Where the words are bereft of all enchantment
Where virtue is scorned with resentment
Benevolence imbued with perfidy
Knowledge endangered by serious malady
No room for compassion, nor remorse
A nation's welfare is the priority, of course
The perdition too far has been driven
Do not hope that it will be forgiven
One life - thousand fears
wait to see it, as reality is fading
One path - dark is real
Can't see clear, haunted by those faces
One truth - so obscured
Being lured by the mind's ravings
What's left to endure
In a failed suicide but to satiate the craving.
Delight in Dark
Autumn turns to winter
Winds dreadful and stark
You embrace a cold stone
Otherworldly lark
Flies beyond redemption...
Reigniting spark
Sorrow turns to pleasure
I delight in dark
Everlasting night
Everburning fight
Bits of Frigid lust
Intermingled husks
Open eyes can dream
Dreams of vivid colour
What else be the succour
Through the days of terror
Overwhelming need
You accept the greed
Caressing mine fresco
Consuming thine ego
Shattering of the Image
Shattering of the crystal image
Built upon ungrounded beliefs
Woven into a misbegotten
prospect of self
Awed by this, a morbid visage
Brushed out by idolatry
And a flame that burned potently -
- now quelled.
For this power goes ever where it wants
And no tower or wall detains its force
And all lows of men here prove impotent
Nor shall even death abuse this divine intent
What is shame compared to loss
in an endeavour of a lovelorn soul
To endure the torment of the...
...utmost cruelty
A monument overgrown in moss
Of a kind so weak and lost
On its knees before this
Solemn majesty
Thrown into an ignominious ordeal
Radiate the world with what you feel!
Drown in Regret
Empty my soul of all emotion
So that I may become a man
Then scribe me a tome of great expectations
Yet put me in chains - to see where I break
Deprive me of all the natural compassion
And amidst the crowd make me feel alone
Become a cheap playwright of a personal Golgotha
My easiness devour, resilience to hone
I'll defend the with my life
I'll pretend that we're alive
I'll perform the sacred duty
On my wounded chest
I shall wear the the burning symbol of piety...
...Drowned in regret.
Can't you see that everything is wrong
We are harvesting sorry remains along the road
Content with the miserable fractions
We are ripe for self-destruction
Pretending not to have lost all the radiance we'd shown.
Fill me a cup to forget
Drown me into regret, Nepenthe!
Two Ravens
Plain dispair in Budapest
neither rain nor air gives rest
Many ghosts have found their shelter
here
To arise again nevermore
No weary traveller finds respite
No sleep, no friend, no peace of mind
Captured in eternal fall
Ominous birds claim this their home
evermore
Time has frozen in a mournful twilight
The farewell from lips did not fully part
Scarlet fields of coroded iron
Shelter birdly sillouettes forevermore
A persistent hex won't sever the threads
Nor will envy unhook the inseparable hearts
Death's no threat when there's aught to die for
and a love to share togethermore.
two ravens
shunned from the world in morose flight
two ravens
in the shadow of an ivied wall hide
two ravens
fallen leaves, October night
two ravens
sworn an oath to survive