Listen to the wind
As it howls and echoes
Promises broken
Vows to be upheld
Even in the storm
I still call upon lightning
To illuminate the pains and truths
Diatribes and faint regale
As rain cleanses away
The ashes of fires
Still dancing across my skin
Now free of marks
Carved by forgotten sins

Where present meets past
Is where silence refrains
Speak up, held high
On this pedestal of dust
Where I lay claim to
Success and failure
Joy and misery
Abundance and emptiness
The soil upon which
I plan to grow
Is nowhere and everywhere
Forged in depths all my own.

Gotta wake up from the dream
Gotta concede
No more words to scream
Inside an empty mind

Watching the pieces float away
So far on the streams
Where memories should be cast
But ripples still soak the seams

Wrote it all down in fire
Wish I could call myself a liar
Spread the ashes
Tried to put everything out
With big splashes

Purge the desire
There's nothing more I require
Than silence, an old friend
And the strength to pretend

Stuck in arbitration
Can we ever get past the miscommunication
Your armor so thick
It's like throwing a glass heart against brick

Staring into the clear
Where tears buoy what was held dear
It's just that time
Another happiness to mime
Our moments right now
Vanish into thick clouds
Of uncertainty and doubts

Why is the season always drought?

Echoing retribution
Attrition
Convolution

Do you know
Who you are fighting?
Or is just the
Advertising and lighting?

On grand scales you contort
The empty grounds
Of your forts

Scorched earth are the embers
Upon which you plant
A foundation to hunger
For greed, hate and self absorption

Rivers that flow, dowse us
In gasoline and words
To flare the conflict ever brighter

A powder keg
That’ll make the world’s load
Ultimately lighter
If the dissent
Is where all our stories end

Bonded to the ground
Chaos soaring above

I am
The path that leads
The path that feeds
My soul

Every motion
Reacting in turn
To every unscripted notion
Even the high North
Cannot keep me
Frozen in place

I am
The path that heeds
The path that feeds
My soul

New beginnings
Awaiting every step
Past the tribulations
Past the trials
For I am here
And here I shall remain
To progress in vain
Forever moving beyond
Any pain