The Dead Man's Walking
Tranquil blue and billowy white, turns gray and dark, hint of night.
Spring showers gone, rocks of ice, things outside will pay the price.
Quietness, stillness, sirens sound. Heart racing, to the underground.
Gentle breeze, soft and warm, turns violent, cold, funnel form.
Electric blue brightens the dark, sounds like the world's being torn apart.
Protective walls secure all around, blown to bits, fall to the ground.
Chaotic, loud, cover your ears, close your eyes and feel your fears.
Eternity, eternity, so long, but so fast, will this day be my last?
Then silent, still, is it gone? What if I move, what if I'm wrong?
The stench of mud and wet grass, electric sparks and broken glass.
It took the trees, it took the homes, it shattered lives and broke some bones.
It has no guilt and no remorse, just takes what it wants while on it's course.
Listen close, nature's talking, it just might mean the "Dead Man's Walking".
A fire is burning from a house down the street
Flames dancing around with deadly heat
The smoke is like demons playing in the sky
Singing a song called "The Death Lullaby"
Flames and smoke rush into each room
Smothering the hallway with deadly fumes
The cat is meowing and praying for help
As flames surround it, it screams one last "yelp"
In a distant room, you can hear a baby cry
As the demons sing thier song called "The Death Lullaby"
Love is a razor
Cutting deep
With every fight
A poisonous bite
Drip
Drip
Dripping
Into the veins of those
Who sing the song of love
Venom screams
Through the mind
With every lie
Every cry
Why do they sigh
The song of love
It's captivity
entering in
Never to escape
Scream for help
Noone answers
Slow death to those
Who belong
Belong to the song of love.
If I could create a place,
Where gentle breezes soothe your soul,
And your inner child plays...
I'd take your hand and lead you there.
As you close your eyes,
The power of your dreams becomes your guide.
Within this place troubles don't exist...
Open your mind and hear the voices.
They are you screaming for freedom.
Tame the beasts, for you are the creator.
And only you alone, can release the pain.
Sometimes I feel like the world's at an end.
When you've noone to talk to,
Not even a friend.
I sit on my steps, feeling rain on my face,
Remembering your words, "I need my space."
I watch as the people walk solemnly by.
I think of your face, and try not to cry.
Staring ahead, I then have the fear,
That this moisture I'm feeling,
Isn't rain, but my tears.
(1984)
Screaming into emptiness,
A friendship torn apart.
Noone here to listen to
The contents of my heart.
Reaching into everything,
Pulling out nothing.
Dead in an alive body.
Am I losing my mind?
The heart dies.
The brain numbs.
Noone.
Sharing lives became a struggle
To stay alive individually.
Instead of love,
Walls were built.
Too much time alone.
Inside thoughts that cannot be shared
With a person seldom there in presence,
Never there in mind.
Even presence is emptiness,
When there is anger inside.
Struggle to keep faith.
All hope is gone.
Body is weak.
Lack of heart.
The body slowly dies.
The heart and mind couldn't find truce.
Trying to make a future that will never be.
Minds collided.
No longer are they one.
Uncertain future.
Emptiness.
Noone.
Crying for a shoulder.
Only an angry face.
Hurt.
Pain.
Thrown at each other,
A dead on hit.
Missing the most important ingredient
For a complete fulfilled life together.
Communication.
Unconditional love.
Compassion.
Understanding.
A friend.
A partner.
For life.
All is hidden.
Invisible.
Nonexistant?
So much bleeding.
Just bleed.
How much lost before it stops?
Outside forces killing them?
NO!
They are killing each other.
Stabs in the back.
More bleeding.
Who can stop the pain?
Someone help.
I am dying.
Noone.
Screams inside.
Screams aloud.
Too weak.
Bleed.
Numb again.
Cannot think.
What did I say?
Why am I here?
Shut the fuck up.
Die.
One piece at a time.
Alone.
Cry inside.
Tears fall outside.
Drying there, unwiped by a loved one.
Remnanats of a broken heart.
A promise broken.
For better or worse?
Worse than the worst.
Hope for love - gone.
Understanding - none.
Richer or poorer?
Strive to be one,
Lose them both.
Richer in wealth,
Poorer in love,
Or rich in love,
Poor in wealth?
Work is time.
Time is love.
Time is lost.
Love is lost.
Time management never considered.
More pain.
Anyone here?
Anyone hear?
Someone please answer.
Help.
Talk to me.
So alone.
Afraid.
Bleeding.
Dying.
This prison is my own.
Alone.
Noone.
Just bleed.
Just die.
Is this a dream?
No.
This is my life.
Lived for another.
Taken away.
Who am I now?
Do I even exist?
Fragments of uncertain emotions
And particles of restrained dreams
Into threads of desire
With illusions of love
Are weaving...
Angrily chime
Are oceans of time
As rivers of sadness
Spill emotions of madness
And so amends
Purity's end...
Shadows beyond a crimson moon
Where the echos of a broken heart dance...
Remnants of laughter once known
Shattered dreams never given a chance...
Take a walk on that thin line
Between fantasy and reality.
Fate is the same in both worlds,
But do I exist in either?
"When you are too focused on what you already know, you shut the door to things you can still learn..."
-Me
"Sometimes you need to look deep into something to acknowledge the simplicity of the answer that lies on the surface..."
-Me
Test the world of confusion
As you explore the ancient mind
And the over-powering frustration
Of a lesson learned.
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