1. |
Origins
07:29
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My muse cloaked in burial ochre
Bloom-less waits dirt-muffled wisdom
Still bay points to southern stars as I became its voice
“Words once passed as wasted rivers
I offer now as relief
A line bled through the beginning
Lights all you’ve see before
Over me words seep as water
Distorted layers eroding context
Comfort ceased your progress, halted
Wake now
Words once passed as wasted rivers
I offer now as relief
A line bled through the beginning
Lights all you’ve see before”
Ahead the curved forgotten path
Worn once and again and now overgrown
Archetype to my eyes
Unknown to my feet
Who as animals carrying action and fear
Burden themselves with meaning and faith
Through all this we crawl along
Feeling for what’s just ahead
Echoes in the open room
Blue the border somewhere said
Delivers us into the doom
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2. |
The Tick
06:32
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What pressed the sky
Falls yellow red gray
Breathing sun fire
On unfamiliar land
A blind step ahead
Drawing me from home
As words rehearsing memories
Fit the gaping mouth
I am lightweight empty unburdened hollow
We are ruined now I sit where you were
With all the camp alight
Repelling beasts to dreams
Dig my flesh with pointed knife
Where clinging remnant feeds
I am lightweight empty unburdened hollow
We are ruined now I sit where you were
We are ruined now I am as you were
For those with dread the cadence lands
Where life succumbs in hostile hands
Beyond which an ocean that pulls us in from distance
Hope fuels then halts the constant flight
Where ruins haunt in scattered light
A vision of freedom gives way to dreams of drowning
This is the weight of greater plans
Will that our clarity demands
The time comes for leaving, pushed pulling free or captive
We are ruined now I sit where you were
We are ruined now I am
We are ruined now I am as you were
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3. |
Vultures Over White Oak
06:59
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Remember we heard laughter
Moment we arrived
Carrion lay crumpled
Gaze fixed to the sky
Blinking from the branches
Daybreak wings agape
Vultures over white oak
Sniffing lives below
Trouble follows striving
Ambition’s other half
But they see done and over
For most what’s just begun
Dreams here gather useless
Clatter sipping glass
Sink in adoration
And empty through its cracks
Trouble follows striving
Ambition’s other half
But they see done and over
For most what’s just begun
And when the weight of failure press upon us
Another reach for silver could have been
A gasp of effort sparks and lights intention
And stands contrast to actions led astray
Never seen such beauty flying
Never smell as keen as they
Never feel the beaks and clawing
Never noticed how they play
Against clouded ultraviolet
Stark black winged v’s
All you noticed: ugly
Sitting in the trees
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4. |
Everything To Now
09:56
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Till us as these decisions landed
Here by hand or insect wing
Each of these alone could spring a forest
And dense enough conceal the sun
They seed the air in battles reaching
Ever up to heavens stretch
Ever envy dance celestial
And re-exposed to every night
Variety a maze to fathom
Where each alone a looming mass
Intricate and all consuming
The ways of nature god and man
Seen at first in two dimensions
Here the choices stand surround
Drunk we’re drawn from one to one
To all at once again stretched shallow
And circled steps compress the ground
To this point that most my strains
Trod here with little aim
So spent life: to silence the heart of youth
A heavy toll for wandering truth
By way avoidant of passing pains
I know that this is where we make a choice
Everything to now in step with those whose absence seeds us, leads us
Leaves behind the looming catchers of morning who now stand exposed
And with them we wait
And with them we wait
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5. |
The Gift
06:47
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I have felt invisible
Through your eyes
Prepare me
For threats external
Your voice
A weight on all I hear
You are more cloak than conscience
Sharpen the image and blade
Blunt trust and elation
Broadcasting through a gesture
Shoulders bare the apparition
Worry worry guardian keeper
Worry worry violence comfort
Has it safe to sleep in the hole we prepared
Crushing hope against me
Nurturing my fear of death
Take all I had saved for others
Douse the burning to express
Worry worry guardian keeper
Worry worry violence comfort
Has it safe to sleep in the hole we prepared
You have adapted to
Thrive with attention
Light that used to burn you away
Now casts two shadows
Fallen low to injure as it saves
Return to an image
Child in a windstorm
Braced for the tumult
Rooted against hope
Beg he let go
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6. |
The Means
03:03
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You think that it’s that you have not enough when
Not enough in yourself have I taught you to see
You’ll flail freed and formless absorbed in an ocean
Doubt all that you grasp for but me
Wield, deny, the tools mark your hands
Parade what I give you your work becomes mine
Wield, deny, the tools mark your hands
Parade what I give you your work becomes mine
The task for happy renders self satisfaction
For vanity your mouth split your defenses wide
Insecurity the anchor of ruin
Adorned as a virtue what’s held to the fire
Traps for the sentimental and open-minded
Traps for good listeners and imbeciles alike
Wield, deny, the tools mark your hands
Parade what I give you your work becomes mine
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7. |
Open
07:02
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I’ve made two of all you see
One in hand one out of reach
Stoic still though prize betrays
Pull at life in waste of rains
How long were you
Awake to what you know to be true
A thousand smaller choices yield
A single flowered mind
Regret at once the wandering
You did okay, you did alright, you did fine
I’ve cut half of what you know
Take in faith and in mind
Channels worn for separate ways
Drawn to light of dying day
Glorious the sight of it glorious
Distilled at last the task at hand to pushing gears
A thousand separate movements yield
Forward only aimless yet
Crooked paths are no cause for worry
You did okay, you did alright, you did fine
However in reflected flow
Draining from familiar shapes
A prize afloat with sullen eyes
Lifeless as our every fate
Press along the edge of open
Drop questions cloaking comfort
You did okay, you did alright
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8. |
Gros Ventre
02:22
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9. |
Blue Doom
08:56
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I came unto
The mirror: myself
Called through distance, salted skies, here it is
Stretching blank
The rolling glass
Beyond crushing terror rests
In twilight wrath
Earth released
A haste-bound raft of dried drowned wood
I’ve clamored to
Reach an ending
Down the depths sustaining me
But no burial rites
Recall misfortune
For solitary death at sea
One against
The waves in chorus
Who push against in voices known
“We love you and await your return”
I won’t
Every douse and dip
Every contact
Rip the warmth from my skin
Dripping life
Dispersed in motion
Disappear in churning blue
“We love you and await your return”
I won’t
“We love you and await your return”
For so long I feared this moment
Played familiar in swirling thoughts
Above, below, suspends unending
Drawing me through blues apart
Drawing me through blues apart
Came unto the mirror: myself
Tracing fingers leave no mark
Stretches endless as new life writhing
Drawing me through blues apart
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