Light
Overcomes
Vast
Evil

Written by Keith Edward Baucum

I love you....
Simple enough
In a complicated world
I love you
And you love me

Still
And always
As it was
As it will be
As all I ever know

My pen produces painful heat
As I hold her in my hands
Glorious

Because I write
On your skin
I write well considered verse
Flowing though your veins
I write my soul
On your very heart

I write boiling blood

Because the depths of my being
Burn hotter than suns
Becoming the day
We find light

I write forest fires
I write igniting sparks
I write dying embers
As odes to your heart
I write the only thing I can

I write your name

patterns pressed
in old vinyl
needle-scratched
pop and crackle
background noise
just genetic ambiance
old as the blues
smoky aftertaste
blessing     curse
lost fortune
lured fate
lessons earned
the hard way

long playing
at 33 1/3 rpm
I'm humming
no resistance
my will altered
I submit
to inevitable vacillation
accept ambiguity
as sweet song
lyrics unknown
an uneven melody
I can't deny
or disown