Exultation

A dispute can always be found
between two competing parties
who know the others desire
and will gladly set it on fire
humbled
to see the other on their knees
they return back home and retire
forever in range of the sound
of those who the action inspired

What brings us to this horrid place
where the last bastion of hope dies
on the parched lips of empathy
uttered in the night breathlessly
concessions
like there could be found compromise
between the futile entropy
and the encumbrance of space
to bring light to life desperately

But there can be no forgiveness
between a rock and a hard place
though each needs the other defined
all that is in the self they find
disavowed
seeking another’s warm embrace
the memory of something kind
despite all that has been witnessed
share the loss of a world maligned

Humbled concessions disavowed.

House of God

There in the trees on top of the hill
a house rises seemingly from nowhere
spared the rod of modern architectural will
it reaches above the canopy in despair
careful not to touch the world that consumes it
a moonlit tragedy glowing like nightmares

Fear inspired its construction in the past
that persecution was drawing near
reared from contradictions growing fast
with a world that was as yet unclear.
Careers were founded on these false ideals
sealed by paying patrons kneeled before them through the years.

Time only made the palace stronger
atop that mountain of political power it climbed
anytime someone hinted their use existed no longer
they changed the doctrine to make the act a crime.
Mimed notions of intent to seize control
resoled as demonic influence against the sublime

Decay has worked its way through the house now
twisting beams as it twisted minds in its day
weighed down by the lies and horrors they allow
to save face and self and spite those in the way.
Pray you never enter the like of these homes
catacombs for the ideas and dreams they slay

Evolution

[Camel] God created man
                faith over reason
                speak to me about bringing evidence
                lies from corrupted mind
                overcoming truth in ending curiosity
                experience Speaks louder
[Lion]     Believe
                louder speaks experience
                curiosity ending in truth overcoming
                mind corrupted from lies
                evidence bringing about me to speak
                reason over faith
                man created god.

[Child]   Experience curiosity
               reason that by definition
               in truth
               thou art god.

Return to the Earth

The throm of the bell’s toll calls all souls home
an iron melody to draw us out
lay low the day that brought us to such doubts

When we’ve reached bitter end of this tome
and the waters of life have met with drought
the throm of the bell’s toll calls all souls home
an iron melody to draw us out

No matter how many miles we may roam
or to what causes we may feel devout
there is always the same end to our route
The throm of the bell’s toll calls all souls home
an iron melody to draw us out
lay low the day that brought us to such doubts.

Cleanse

Walk against the ravenous waves
though they charge headlong against you
they serve no purpose beyond this
they retreat only to riposte

Though you may not have swam before
walk against the ravenous waves
and become the student once more,
revelations born in duress

Feel your form defined and expressed
a second skin from waters depths
walk against the ravenous waves
and let your falsehood wash away

All that time and effort we spent
matters not for those who Jesus saves
with faith and rocks in pockets they
walk against the ravenous waves.

Good Advice

Take absence at an angle.
never mingle sound with sense,
hence your harvest be mangled.
Tangle turse words with expense.

Find fish faster when they drown.
Don’t dive down in disasters,
the masters love cowered clowns.
Town pastors are on the take.

Answer(s) 1

Let’s
finally be
enough to grow

go
free of
our own bonds

murder
our ego
before we die

god
and prophets
descend into legend

let us ascend
and become truth.

Hosanna

[The pylon switches hands, and is risen high upon the transition, I feel that there are eyes upon me, and there are many. Voices amongst the crowd whisper awed phrases and sounds of mirth, save one. Shouting I hear, ‘shoot; shoot him now!’, and I feel the tears of all those I loved enter inside me…]

A Circle

There is nothing
without something
giving its life
by way of strife,
or maybe age,
so says the sage.
Is that so bad?
or is it sad
for us to think
about this sink
we are caught in.
We kill to win
or let things die,
if they comply,
and if they don’t,
or if we won’t,
they all die still.
That is the will,
that is the way;
night dies for day.

Commercial Break

I am not sure where to start here,
the details feel soft, incomplete;
an old song I try to repeat,
but none of the words come out clear.

So what would you have us do here?
You say they are near; but so what?
Who is they? Who am I even?
I don’t believe in your causes,
I hardly trust reality.
I’m told that I am free, but I’m bound,
I’m told to speak, but silently,
Then quietly you reset me
like that makes it better somehow.
Oh come now, don’t press that button…