The purge has begun
How many’s it been now?
Since kids played with guns
One by one, drop like flies
October Massacre disguised
Like Ford still fondling these fascists
As the crimson sun arise
And Hawley-Smoot gives ‘em the boot
And then they train the boys to shoot
First casualty of war is truth
The worst is innocence of youth
Beirut

We kept on walking
Despite sensing something more
Why did we do that?

Distance was needed
For these paths to cross again
Perhaps it was fate

I don’t believe much
Except each note you wrote me
Faithful messenger

Bury your secrets
Deep within my willing soul
Where they shall remain

The flame in your eyes
Was all my cold heart needed
To beat warm once more

Uncertain young souls
Locked together in a chest
The key tossed away

Display all your love
Hesitate to speak the words
I know how you feel

This bond we now share
Shall endure through the ages
Time’s flowing river

Run from my embrace
Hide from all my endearment
Inescapable

Eternal chorus
Everlasting melody
You’re my deathless song

If only you knew
Of the power within
The command you could have
Over minds of these men

So simply seduced
By desire's corruption
Since Eden induced
The temptation eruption

And from Rhea's womb
Came your fury and scorn
And from Sita's ascendance
Your freedom was born

To be Mother of Dragons
Hippolyta's gown
Cleopatra adorned
In a lion king's crown

And not all of us breeders
Are of the same kind
There are some of us left
Who still think you divine

I'm back in the world
Where nothing makes sense
Except this existence
In past/future tense
In utopian Andes
I see ancient temples
The Inka my children
Move mountains to meet you
Build cities to greet you
Like Yavin 4 Rivendell
Fairy tales come true
For Shangri La lenses
Through which I have seen through
Become the cascading
And fuego throat truth spew
Of my stoic peaks
Where too much green to see blue
Is wild and thriving
In time is the essence
The stench of surviving
The sweet effervescence
My love evanescent
All relative bliss
In a world luminescent
A powerful cleansing
Of flowerful jungles
And showers replenishing
Buzzing bee bumbles
Who ride like the winds
As they uplift my wings
In a chorus of eagles
To harpyist strings
Yes indeed we're a breed
That is rare and in need
Of a high elevation
To teach and to lead
To share and to spread
Every bountiful seed
We are young and incredibly gifted and freed
By the journeys we take
To mortality's edge
Then we leap from the faith
Of a bungee jump ledge
For these trips into falls
Are immortal in dreams
So sublime and surreal
In our consciousness streams
As we turn up the offspring
The life here it teems
And we are the Mother Earth's
Ends to the means
The rust in the gears
Of deforest machines
Who dare cut us down
From the summits we've reached
When transcending the limits
Of Heavens we've breached

****
Gone
Just like that
I want it back
But wouldn’t dare initiate
Communication
When I lack
Inebriation
Speeches black
Infatuation
Heart attack
My cardiac arrested
By a profit-motive law contract
An act, and one of vanishing,
To banish me to this flashback