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My colors fly high tonight Above the blazing storm Beyond its deathly shroud Filled with the cries of the fallen ~ A melody explodes From the depths of my lungs Like red banners of revolt Before their murdering colossus ~ My stride is fearless tonight I play the villain in the dark I wield a…
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Life’s become a rising bubble Rushing for the surface Bursting apart on the gentlest breeze ~ I fall to pieces I’m reborn in a fearless form Each dwindling era In each ashen toll ~ Once quiet fears of soaring From this safe agony Claim the nights as their own Turning me over in panic
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I’m still their frightened son Age twelve In the rustling trees Behind grandmother’s house ~ Where Georgia would sing Forcing twilight to blush, Feasting and thriving On the wails of forefathers ~ I’m still the boiling brat On the edge of nineteen Bursting with light Swallowed whole by tomorrow By a desolate dream ~ Despite…
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Down, into the whirlpool Late, in the widening night Cold rivers snake through To the bay at last ~ Memory fails me In their tumbling crash Past the soft sighs of sleep To the paradise I’ve grown ~ The king illusion, Reigning in my psyche ever since I fled from its gardens From the snarls…
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We were there, For the final heave of her chest, To see a dynasty fall Glittering, reclaimed by the dark
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This colossal dream only widens Like the mouth of a serpent Blotting out the old stars Once lined in our favor ~ A lost epoch of legends Tolls ghostly and hollow In this dark wilderness Of once impossible horror ~ When we reach the other side Will we spoil ourselves? Will we live honestly? Will…
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So much for anger Annihilation Slips away from me like sand So long to the inferno Scorched swiftly in a dream ~ I’m no longer weighed down By deadly words or deeds The need has died within me I float on, I float on ~ Never mind to desolation To the iron binds of war…
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The dying light in this tunnel Is beyond me now And I miss the strange rhythms Of gentle days past / I crave last year’s pain The few sorrows of a prince Rushing forward on the crests Of invincible waves / The dying light of silver Has pursued all it can Down this serpentine grave…
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