Howling sunsets
inspired to orchestrate a shipwreck
when the blackout floods
we are safe
we are swallowed 
we are expanded by the weight of the
awesome reflection
but where an empire stands
we are lost
we are waiting
maintaining a natural law
herein lies the secret to our death
sweet death

burning night-light inside an owl's
insistant eyes the knocking on doors
and clicking tongues this end is weeping
off the dark implications
but where a ship will land
we are caught we are fading
clinging to perpetual love
herein lies persistance to our breath
sweet breath

I bear the stigma of an insistant death
so let it shed the terror of dying

they thought that they 
were stones built to last 
but felt the noose round their neck
after the curse was cast
the eyes had sought where 
the blame was to be bought
the coins are falling
from the pockets at the same [bad word] cost
the string is snapping
tightly tied around your tongue
wire-tapped to mark the path
to where the spin was spun
the black cat at my fence
you say your message was sent 
wrong I rode the dragon straight to your gate
fooled into the face [bad word] war

forced
their fingers ecstatic as they cling
towards their collections
the plates are sewing death
to be the birthright of the sons
the animals are stooping to perform 
their own dissections
as the [bad word] of the spectacle
shudders the light that's leaking
from the splits you thought was leading
you from safety
wrong
it's secondary light
what you saw was the city
it broke into the sky and stole
the stars from our attention
oh the twisting it caused
I practice [bad word] 
nearer to our death
we are finding freedom from submission
but it's our [bad word] choice
who decides

mumbling
controls 
midday to a tower listening 
to nothing 
fold the echoes of the stones underneath me
meet then the shivering
trigger at the well tonight
meet then the shivering
trigger at the well tonight
meet then the shivering
trigger at the well tonight

cooling white light behind
one pooling of the sun
we tried
we tried
we tried
we 
slept it all away
a song was dreamt then sung
then forgotten extending the circle
that hung battered by our hearts
we find our rest
sweet rest

rolling centers found
we crafted into sound
when left upon the ground
it's set to its decay
what's written & unseen will stick
into our speech for all that I have seen
we're into see the teeth
for all that I have seen
we're into see the teeth