February 1, 2015

  • Take the Light In

    v1
    i awake
    with no eyes
    yet a fading light
    of darkened stars
    becomes more
    bright

    now gone
    and as a black hole swallows
    a mother coddles
    new born
    life

    no infinite youth
    cause the older he gets
    the shorter the
    sun burns

    chorus
    if all i see
    is distant stars

    still i take their light in
    take their light in
    glowing orbs profound

    when all i see
    is what
    once
    was

    do we live forever?
    burn forever
    even
    not here
    or now

    v2
    i fall asleep
    with no heart
    but i feel it beating,
    racing towards,
    the loving moon

    it orbits two:
    the absent eye &
    misleading heart!

    chorus
    if all i see
    is distant stars

    still i take their light in
    take their light in
    glowing orbs profound

    when all i see
    is what
    once
    was

    do we live forever?
    burn forever
    even
    not here
    or now

    spoken word

    it feels like a century now
    since i saw your light
    since you spoke to me over a phone
    since i heard the nuanced cadence
    of your voice
    or imagined what it could even sound like
    provided signs
    to elevate me
    to some new dimension or incite
    some new challenge i never would want to face
    locking myself in a closet
    to avoid the world's inevitable chase
    change
    this is all now lost
    since your star diminished
    and gave me a new life
    a different life
    a world with no oysters
    a world of metaphysical voyeurs
    Huck Finn with no Tom Sawyer
    a world eater
    a time waster
    a mind lost in a maze
    of moon craters
    Medusas turning me to stone
    as I eat of mankind, i lick of its bones
    i see snakes of venom, i see my little girl grown
    i see me old on a porch
    i see my heart is scorched
    i see the love of my life encouraged
    i see all my pain and sorrow left in storage
    i breathe new life and gain new courage
    i rapt upon the doors of galaxies
    no longer discouraged
    i find a peace with the light
    of dead stars
    all now dormant

    if all i see
    is dormant stars

    still i take their light in
    take their light in
    glowing orbs profound

    when all i see
    is what
    once
    was

    do we live forever?
    burn forever
    even
    not here
    or now