The moments of silence are gone
We run from them into the rush of unimportant things
Unspoken painful whispers
Dwelling on all that we fear
Unwilling or unable
To be free of this modern machine
To part ways with all that is toxic
Hundreds and thousands of betrayals
How far we have veered from our primeval purpose
Turned and stayed sour
Cynical and judgmental
We widen this web technology
Race through our days
Increase the pressures
Stimulants to an exhausted nervous system
Between us and the immediate
A fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher
Cut off  
From life's blessings
From our neighbors
From the wonders of nature
Slowly forgetting how to smile
Our silence has become a figure of speech
Hissing above the echoing vacuum.

Gypsy

Onward -
Towards the derangement of our destiny
Enveloped in an emotional maelstrom
Tortured by shame
Exalted by visions
The love and the desperate
The shadows of moving puppets
Cast on walls of fire
Shut in this cave of our own bodies
Cleanse our doors of perception
The spell of the infinite
Break this narrow chamber of our cavern.

Gypsy

How did it come to this...
Born into this hell
Looked around for Salvation
Looked around for crumbs
Blew my own trumpet
On the occasions I blew at all....
Now here we are
Steppin' stones to a paradise never seen before...

Did you ever think
Free
Did you ever think
Those redeeming thoughts..
The humbled Me
Before the greater good...
Did you ever think

The late nights
The early mornings
The all that matters
Breaking  curfew with the don't care at all..
Here in the Below
The far fetched seems closer at hand...
Seems to conspire with Life
For all new beginnings

Did you ever think
It would come to this
Before you thought at all..
Gypsy

In the darkness - My dark-beating Heart
The inarguable injustice of loving
All its mystery, beauty and pain
Sad
Confident
Insecure
In lonely desolation
Your name - Spoken for the last time

Then - fresh tears
From an empty Heart
The sorrow
Soothing electric vibration
I stumble,  get up
Into considerations of Death and Annihilation

Strange little memories
Dragged out to sea by the undertow

Silence -
To forget time,
To forgive life,
To be at peace

There is nothing more
But all that I have lost

Love
Pours the whole of itself into each moment
Love
That small beacon
In this terrifying darkness
We are connected by a bond of sympathy
Reduced to the unutterable ignorance
I know that ghost wandering lost on Earth

Death
The only God who comes when you call

Gypsy

Pride
Half slain
Kneeling in silence
Prayed
Hungered for your love

Gypsy

We live on a placid island of ignorance
In our black seas of infinity
A weird yearning for death
A crushing sense
Small and weak and selfish
To escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware
A dare-devil rather than a Holy coward
Battling my fears
My pains
Conquering my uncertainties
A dread of stirrings in my soul
I considered forbidden and criminal
To paralyze and quake an individual
Flying out of the corrosive fire
In so deep a dread of silence
The silence of many
Silence multiplied
The silence of a crowd
Your dread  
This defeat of all Government
Within eyesight the unfinished
Written by Dante on the Gate of Hell
Shakes the earth beneath us

Like a roller-coaster ride
The sensation of it trickling away
The imperfect vagueness of human thought

Gypsy

To the fragment
That is the void
The Oneness
That is the Universe
The fullness of all there is.

Gypsy