Shores Of Stone

In shores of stone
You shall make your home
Did you ask for solidity?
A life?
Recognition?
I shall give you a solid start
A place to firm your mark
You will be recognised
Things will last
As far as time allows
You will live
In shores of stone
With grey skies
To firm your ground further
The horizon is your absynthe
Farm what you will
In everlasting stony gaze
Everything erected
Will stand for ages to come
And go
And come
Teh world digests the rock more slowly
When it bears some significance
Or so you've made yourselves to think
Can I pretend to be a whisper
Smoothing the stone?
You will lie
In shores of stone
Your love making will be hard and heavy
But you will unite
With gravity and shape
You will live in shores of stone
And the sea shall be frozen for you
In shores of stone

The Word Of The Lost

Fog, fingers and flames
Little rhymes
Going off time
A body loses its shape
I miss contours
And substance
When shall I begin?
A wander is lost
In search
Will she come home?
Why does the night turn to day?
To
Day
Is led astray
By a tide of ring tones
And fake promises
You will never be where you are
A coma of the senses
Taking you back
To be returned
To the origin
Decreation
I hover over the hills
Of Constantinople
I call out for history to retract
From its misconceptions
A betrayal spreading like blood
Through the centuries
Infuriating the veins of civilisation
We got closer once
Then we lost track
Then we were tracked down
Then we were simply down
I heard your prayer
Beneath shores of stone
Ships of bone
Chants of home
Of men together
And alone
If I could fell through the ages
Would I ever return?
If I could see through the ages
Would I see the world burn?
A thousand times again
A thousand times over
Time is the final makeover
The words of the lost are repeated
Though no one can hear them
No one that's here
Then
Why should we near hymn?
I feel I have misspoken
I apologize
I concede
I retract
I bow to your aptitude
To the necessities of the multitude
I no longer know what to say
But somehow this calms me down
No longer a mission or objective
To be completed in time
A score to settle or conquer
A game in hand
I flee from the surface of existence
I dive though the musty waters
Settle in the silt
I rain in the sand
Wet with peace
I return to me
And forget about all beginnings
Beneath shores of stone
Ships and thrones
Kingdoms of flashing eyes
Wide, dazzling grins
The mistakes are the same
Over coffee and latte,
Or ambrosia and honey
Too much delight can switch you down
The cable of creation
Is yours to keep
There's nothing to be learned
But plenty to forget
I take it you've never met
The stranger in your head
The person that stares back
On the other side of the mirror
Above the neck
Those eyes can see you
Better than mine
And yet I must decline
A guest so sublime
Through the strands of time
Making me yours and mine
I wish I could tell you
The words of the lost
But only the wise have spoken
And their silence
Is the last thing I hear
Perhaps their words have been lost
Or broken
By something stronger
Than bread or spear
Their words have been forgotten

In Between The Gates Of Eden

You'll travel your soul
Roam and roam
Forget the way home
It's a song
You can dance
I'll see you when you get there
Never a goodbye
Unfashionable clothes
The slipstream of childhood
The regrets we made
The songs we wore
As war went on
It's a time capsule
That holds us together
Apart we stand
Each other in awe
I awake myself
I head off to work
My life is complete
A word I write
I song I sink
A bird I free
Flutters in the wind
My chest heaves
My life concedes
I whisper a secret lie
I tell no one my alibi
There's no one to hear
Our secret conquest
The year nears
The year that beckons nears
Two rivers
The Euphrates
The Tigris
Elephants and tigers
Will you come home?
Together we shall stay apart
The long and the lack
An unquestionable remark
I fail my seed
I take thee as a spouse
A wrinkled worm
The word of the lost
Is here forever
I stand beside you
Before the Gates of Eden
I stand beside you
As you enter
The Gates of Eden
I stand
Behind you
By the Gates
Of Eden