Severely ravaged but not nearly enough, plenty of time left to refill the cup
The tip of the arrow still embedded in chest
Give it time the body will digest
Reflections ripple memories with softly sung melodies
The breeze through the trees will remedy the dark disease
Broken halo held up with scotch tape and glue
Black out drunk on scotch but still remember you
In the wake of disaster children still at play
People paint their souls with every word they say

Dismal rays of light illuminate my view
Within the darkest nights I'm haunted by you
I've found myself a resolution
Loaded drink my trusted solution

Tears so warm and dripping of lost love
They're as hot and red as my own blood
I can't, I just can't get enough
Of your diseased terminal love

But it's in your arms when I am freezing
Inside those cold dead arms I am freezing
I never thought I'd stop believing

But you taught me how
Somehow
Disgrace becomes my place
Love is replaced by hate
You reminded me why I built the gate
With one more sip I reiterate
I hope, from your image, to escape

Deep in the meadow there's a place I go
where no one can see me and shadows don't grow
Cloaked in the sunlight, secured by the Earth
Letting go of all I've seen and done since birth
Blue sky divide and free what's mine
Not yet dead but just barely alive
Illusions of time and space diminish
Injured pieces of my soul replenish

I woke the devil up to ask him what time it was
He said, "It's like 10,000 degrees Celsius."
I pitched a tent so my soul could take habitat
I thought I loved her but it was just a heart attack

I follow devil down down
I try to stand yet I fall down
I followed devil way down down
Can't hit bottom when the only way is down

I phoned an angel up to ask him to consider me
He said, "I can't hear you, the signal here is too weak."
I only saw one set of footprints in the sand
That was when they dropped me and all the angels ran

I follow them down down
I try to stand but I fall down
I followed angels way down down
Can't hit bottom when the only way is down

Tables turn and positions reverse
the heart is naked when insecurities disperse
I see both sides of the coin we flipped
failed to get out of the way before lightning hit
The forecast calls for clear skies
There's a healing little boy inside
He watches as the pieces rearrange
asking a stranger to provide some loose change
so he can hold onto a coin until another whispers in his ear,
"Lets flip this for our future, call it in the air"

The universe breathes inward through the first breath of every newborn
It exhales through an elder's last
It lights up the dark with our speech and imaginations
It arranges the stars to reflect our hopes and dreams
It mystifies itself to sharpen us
It expands itself to humble us
It welcomes us to breathe
It beckons us to believe
in universal love

Infallible malleable words in lateral
Laid on a page with word collateral
Words describe all things imaginable
In absence of words thoughts are intangible

Were we to worry about words too absurd
Never embracing the words we have spurned
We may never know words yet to be learned
In ignorant minds new words are obscured

Words prance and dance and orchestrate
Some simplify some complicate
And with these words I now fabricate
This final line made up of words eight