We remember the promise, the oath, the flowing words taken straight from the
serpent's crooked mouth. We knew once the promise of immortality, the miracle of my
skin and yours and it was then that we had the miracle cure for loneliness. We knew
once of love and patience and kindness. We knew once of sun and warmth and peace.
We knew all of this, and it never once took its existence from our healthy pink souls.
Lately, we have been paving our roads in gold. We sing mountain songs to the
resilient soil and murmur our prayers against the air - all along looking for the right way
to cheat god. Shapes and souls move constantly against each other, but we are all alone
in our own thoughts, singular in our skin. This is the threat of knowing, of seeing
clearly, of looking straight into the sun searching for reason. We together (on our own)
bury out cleared eyes in calculations; latitude, longitude and hemispheric paradises. We
are all looking for Eden.
Aug 29, 2010
Aug 29, 2010 at 12:57 PM UTC
We remember the promise, the oath, the flowing words taken straight from the
serpent's crooked mouth. We knew once the promise of immortality, the miracle of my
skin and yours and it was then that we had the miracle cure for loneliness. We knew
once of love and patience and kindness. We knew once of sun and warmth and peace.
We knew all of this, and it never once took its existence from our healthy pink souls.
Lately, we have been paving our roads in gold. We sing mountain songs to the
resilient soil and murmur our prayers against the air - all along looking for the right way
to cheat god. Shapes and souls move constantly against each other, but we are all alone
in our own thoughts, singular in our skin. This is the threat of knowing, of seeing
clearly, of looking straight into the sun searching for reason. We together (on our own)
bury out cleared eyes in calculations; latitude, longitude and hemispheric paradises. We
are all looking for Eden.
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