the crescent moon, bent
like Arjuna's bow
draws her ink-dark arrow across all heaven

she is first to intersect venus, then mars,
then on in one omniscient arc to trace
the centre of being

across skies, across eons
across all beginnings, endings,
all that is and was

long to outlast all human experience
and all that can be foreseen


MChallis © 2015

life is made for taking chances
seeing where those chances lead
when i think of you, my heart dances
you are everything i need

my head is hazy
when i wake up every day
i try to walk the right path
with demons in my way

my mind get's lazy
then it goes astray
i'm always doing the math
when's my dying day?

the grave, it craves me
to death i must obey
i don't want to die right now
i just want to stay

i've been trying so hard to see
if there's a light that shines for me
in my mind, the darkness falls
i am the effect and i am the cause

i've been trying to keep it strong
against the things i know are wrong
in my soul, my weakness wins
i am the penance and i am the sins