Juniper falling, they’re all bent crooked,
hat stands melting in the wind, night-time,
starlight, firelight, moonlight, candlelight.
She’s grazing sunsets flecked with gold,
he’s hurling rocks at the great untold,
writing words sparkling with ink, bold,
selling his soul, what’s that?, already sold?
Well **** it, sell it again, highest bidder,
canopies never quite reach the sky.
No cracks in the glass ceiling, this is it,
end of the road, can’t get higher, boy,
and that girl is gone, so long, farewell,
cracking her cosmic whip, speed of sound,
sonic boom, punctured eardrums, scream!
Still can’t hear you, give it all you got,
inhale, keep going, like it’s all a bad dream,
**** in the air, grit your teeth, open your throat,
let it all out, **** it, make the ground quake.
The dead don’t rise, zombieless landscape,
all alone, boy, talk high, act tough,
you’re just a kid, son, just a **** child.
She wasn’t yours, sunsets, horses wild,
password required, verification, access denied.
Glitter had her like stardust, gathered up,
lining your pockets, fingers lingering inside,
feeling the sharpness, the smoothness,
keep ******* up, stars still shine, right?
Even they die too, false hope, eternity wrong,
an illusion in the confusion, beautiful delusion,
twist in the contortions, moon rocks soft.
Skip them across the lake, the other side,
out of reach, always sink halfway there,
but keep dreaming, dream big, all that’s left,
waste of an ocean, too big, too ******* blue.
Same as the sky, reflection, reflect yourself,
look inside and find that little piece of heaven
trailing her sunsets, golden evenings, perfection,
but your cancer is her absolute dejection.
Chin up, kid, got a long way left to go,
the sign reads thirty, put your foot down,
flat out, heading for the hairpin turn,
fly off the curve, look down, kid, you’re flying.
escaped your labyrinth, lucky little minotaur.
But that’s just it, ******* with string,
trees bending in dead winds, lost all hope,
come crashing down, gravity your enemy.
Another lost soul, pick up the pieces,
dead shards of nothing, atoms splitting.
Marble heads carved grotesquely,
kissing their mouths with a **** in hers,
oh boy, didn’t you know?, she’s a ****,
looking for something to stop her dam bursting.
Oh poor thing, silly little creature,
that sunset wasn’t yours, you don’t do gold,
too many whisperings, murmurings, memories,
holding on, gotta let go, fingers whitening,
but she sounded so beautiful, ******* siren,
lorelei, songs painted poison on the air.
What you gonna do, kid? Run away again?
Cry in your corner, stupid little *****,
no highways passing the moon, it’s new,
no light in your dark, forget about her.
Moving ahead, skirting stars, black holes,
vacuuming your light, just slip in,
so easy, so easy, so ******* easy,
and all that pain will be gone from here,
say goodbye to it all, what use is light
to the blind who pray to gods of colour?
Gardens with roses, pansies, hemlock,
creeping over it all, eat the berries,
chew the toadstools, you’re too low,
get high!, but you aren’t like that,
too busy chasing dreams, guess what,
THAT’S ALL THEY ******* ARE!
When you gonna learn the truth, boy?
Your head lies, your heart lies,
everything and everyone, all they do is lie.
Silence, forever slumbering, dead monsters,
hunting a condition, your rotten addictions.
Angels on horses, swords made of clouds,
cathedrals, campaniles, made of red brick,
and they droop, rushed by weight, heavy skies,
bleeding their rain like a shark attack victim.
She dances with raindrops, flecked with a spectrum,
revolving as the world, her feet, the ground beneath,
and you, yes you, still dreaming, aren’t you?
It’s cheap and easy, doesn’t hurt,
unless you end up believing them.
Nothing comes true, other lies told in the dark,
when she thinks you’re asleep, I love you.