The Trick (is to keep moving)

Take your Heaven in Measured Doses

  Spread Adequately—Apart—

Lest we Forget, Enduring Hell,

  Be the Greatest Performance Art.

And Distance, Now—Measured in Miles

  From the Heart's Refined Extremes

Grants us Breath we'd never Have

  Confined in a Room of Needs—

So Let It Be—that Place—Above—

  Within our Minds, we'll Always Have

A Shore to Crash those Waves of Love

  And a Place to Store what's come to Pass.

With Eyes to See—and Arms to Reach—

  The Horizon—is Ours to Own—

Lest we're Blinded and Crippled by

  That Concept Known as Home—

To Be Both Shore, and Stormy Sea—

  To Be Both Sky and Dark Abyss—

Take Her* Hand—no Matter Where—

  Before The Chance is Missed.

                                            *The

  

Shadow Of Death

Give me a Cloud

Under the Afternoon Sun

That I may Lose

This Mocking Shadow—

Anything I Choose

It Faithfully Follows—

Each Step as Sudden

As the Release of the Gallows

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Drain the Well of Tears—

Bleed the Beating Heart—

See the Sun go Down

& Your Light, go Slowly, Dark—

Watch Her Flowers Drown

In Your Pool of Blood—

Yes—All we Know is Owned

By the Rushing Flood of Love.—

From the Well Of Life—Drink!

To the Tombs of Death—Sink!—

From the Womb of Dust—Rise!

But don't Forget to Blink!—

And Remember Her Forever—

Her Laughter—Echoes—Deep—

And Every Moment—Savour!—

For the next, you'll surely Weep!

Forever In The Fire

Forever in the Fire of Life

We Burn—

We Gain, to Lose—

We Learn, to Forget—

We Love, to Hurt—

Over, and Over Again—

For What is Fire?—

But The Divine Light—

Of The Cycle—

That Lives—

Despite our Own—

You—

The Sight of You

Defines my Vision,

And the Drive to You

Refines my Mission—

            ~

When I am Away,

I am Never Lost—

Lonely?—Yes—

But Sure, of Us.