Can't stay on the run forever,
It's time to tie the knot with life.

Skies fall down slowly
As shadows lie beneath these
Most mountainous truths
Stretching out like outcrops down
In walking ways was our youth

~
The arithmetic of murky waters
Is not so clear

Neither are my chances of survival

Here is me
Face down in urgent sea

My wave
My grave
My gateway, perhaps

Whatever the consequence
Suffering is the new salvation

It all adds up
Sum how?
Sum way?

And if I was your ship
Destined to flounder
In the wide open drink

You'd re-enter the equation
And find a way to pull me through

Just so we could once more
Make the hurting count
~

Plato banished the poets
He wasn't wrong, but he wasn't right

I keep on writing
Last lone American night

I drift, I drift toward death
No goals, such consternation

Ravenstory stamps
Northwest elevation

       I keep waitin' ...