The siren's lament
Howling far away
Sings the story
The futile search
The reaching in vain
The trodden under foot
Wailing in the background of our lives
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April sun is setting golden
Through the cemetary trees
And all the scents of the fairer season
Color the hilltop breeze
There's something in this graveyard hour
That stirs my soul within
To a place I know I've been before
That I know I'll leave again
And as that gold light sinks away
Unveiling a sea of stars
I've no doubt it still shines somewhere else
On some cemetary afar
And flowers are growing around gravestones
And the birds are singing in the sky
In the springtime garden of the dead
Where none go for pleasure but I
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Only one man has ever walked this earth
Only one ship ever sailed in the sea
Only one woman has ever given birth
Only one person ever called their self "me"
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It's funny how sometimes
when looking at someone
who's saying something to me
though I try and I try
to look into their eyes
eyeballs are all I can see
And though their words touch my ears
Not one word can I hear
Their consonants and vowels all in vain
and all these things that they're after
just don't really seem to matter
funny gadgets, idle facts, financial gain
and it's strange, at times, the grass around me
is as green as grass could strive to be
but I pass by, take no notice of the hue
And the sun it shines so brightly
And the stars they twinkle nightly
And the flowers glow red, yellow, violet, blue
But as these miracles unfold before me
I look but somehow do not see
I seem at times to be lost in the world
So time it passes by the hour
My moods they shift from sweet to sour
All around me thoughts and feelings spin and swirl
Until I see I'm sinking down
My forehead wrinkled, my lips a frown
And I know that there is something I've misplaced
And just like that, it all comes back
My thoughts and concerns crumble and crack
I, me, and mine are shattered, laid to waste
And in the simple truth of a yellow flower
All fear and anger shrieks and cowers
There are not two, no thing to praise, no thing to shun
And as the sun begins to rise
Shining love behind my eyes
Shining through me
I am empty
Only one
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As the day disappears
Of it's own accord
The flat world is veiled from my eyes
I rest in the darkness
And my blindness reveals to me
The one infinite sea
It's boundless depths
Strewn with shining stars
Like a field of wildflowers
A never-ending expanding-ever
Dancing symphonically
Painting on nothingness itself
Through which the images slip and pass
Even as they forever remain
And as I close my eyes to sleep
The stars in my heart
Shine also in that sea
The very same
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There is a moment
Between buildings
When the snowflakes
No longer fall
They stop, where they are
Look me in the eye
And then they rise
So playfully flying
Like a flock of stars
Like weightless children
And I am lost
Beautifully abandoned
Boundless in their dance