Life blood of the earth.
Withering future fading.
Hours are growing short.
Nectar of the gods decaying.

Why are we dim?
What is our plan?
I do not know.
Its not me in control.
I am but a lamb!

Purged!

Reprogram; re-seed.
Rebuild as it should be.
Orders issued in our wake.
Couldn’t be saved from our fate.

Fallen; condemned.
Paid in full with our end.
Now only remnants remain.
Might be best we went down in flame.

Phase Five!

Prospect been reborn.
Not everything is withdrawn.
Life now grows where it once died.
No need for it to run and hide.
Yet once more we are unleashed.
Far more primitive and correctly naive.
Still will it all unfold the same?
If it does systems will begin again.

Governing edict:

Life blood of the earth, water.
There was a withering future fading, torture.
Hours were growing shorter.
Nectar of the gods was past decaying.

This is not the end!
Try, try, then strike again.
Just a setback not on the cards.
Clairvoyance is failing so i’m taking charge.
Pickup the pieces and fix them once more.
No more sleeping with…
Yes i’ve been a fool!

Degrees of my seperation!
Bounce me of my inspiration.
With calls swirling in my brain.
Two and two don’t make me fully inane.
More like developments pulling up short.
You are my marbles.
They’re dropping short!

Wrench me from the cogs.
Tear form from meat.
Pull me aside and…
Speak softly to me!

Time is running sideways.
Pickings have long been slim.
Deliver the sermon so i can reform.
Inside my head there is always a storm.
Seldom quiet so i can just think.
Forever and ever after,
My minds on the brink!

Wrench me from the cogs.
Tear form from meat.
Pull me aside and…
Speak softly to me!

To me your skin is serenity.
Blonde locks of maddening beauty.
With eyes that flash the colours of spring.
You are my muse, my everything.

Nights are long when you are not near.
Aches in my joints without you to steer.
So when finally our reunion arrives.
I will scream; that victory’s arrived.

Your flow is my drive and it won’t stop.
From your features my eyes will not drop.
Lost in your radiance, fixed on your glow.
With you on my arm I see no reason to go.

With legs like sculptures born from dreams.
My heart beats as though its bleeding streams.
A smile on my mug that refuses to quit.
Bit like how the sight of you makes my body flit.

Then there’s your figure, your personality and style.
Each one is marvelous like the length of the Nile.
Yet to compare both cannot be done.
For you defeat everything that has or will come.

And with these last words I reiterate my beliefs.
That you are unrivalled even by tropical reefs.
Such is your beauty outside and in.
That I remain gob smacked by your every being.

Stir from slumber to see green sky.
Don’t remember this on my last day.
Where now do I find myself?
Is this a new age, maybe of progressiveness?
Questions, no answers and so I go seek.
For too long I have been asleep.
I don’t recall two headed sheep.

Grounds are frozen by orange layers.
Those who I find kneel in eternal prayers.
With mutters filling where birds should sing.
I have to wonder what has been happening.
For these are not the lands I knew.
For the first time in nine millennia it all seems new.
Not in a positive way though.

As weeks turn months I see the truth.
This world is on the edge of plummeting.
For all my knowledge I have no answers.
Solutions have been whittled away.
Clearly this land will soon all go.
I make my peace while civilization wages war.
They still believe they can do more.

Final days out on the road.
I sit at the edge of a colossal gouge.
Life all over will soon pass the final line.
Thresholds cannot be restrained this time.
I make my peace while others try to flee.
Loved long enough to know when its hopeless.
Only regret is I spent so long in stasis.

Seconds remain as the world sheds its skin.
Convinced I am the last living being.
Smile as I wait for it to slip away.
After all this sight still holds beauty.
And then everything turns to white.
Searing anything not claimed before now.
Awakening for it all to begin again.

Stubborn, pigheaded, maybe even a fool.
These are claims made by you.
Not wrong but I am what I am.
If that’s a problem, I can do nothing.

Standing at the roadside as the rain pours.
Each strike I feel the sting from my soars.
Twisted by the weight of time.
Should’ve made me most unkind.
And while I faltered and likely failed.
I stand refusing to become that which sickens me.

Stubborn, pigheaded, stupid, a fool.
They are words used right through.
Not wrong, but this is who I am.
If that’s an issue, then not my problem.

Left alone with nothing but a night sky.
Stars fill the void of those who never said goodbye.
And sure I feel quite removed.
Could’ve changed off this route.
But if I had this would not be true.
Instead I would’ve been bowing down to all of you.

Stubborn, pigheaded, idiotic, not cruel.
This is reality marching two by two.
True and yet I wear the names proud.
For its better than being a vicious coward.

Cabin out by a calm lake.
Serene place to contemplate.
Wile away days til my hearts content.
Nothing to interfere with hermit intent.

I’m not a judge, or a king.
Only a simple human being.

Battle has made me weary.
It clouded my soul so cruelly.
Society tries to drive a wedge deep.
Made my every movement feel incomplete.

I’m no lord, or a liar.
Just someone wanting peace and quiet.

Traitors for a cause.
Never think to offer pause.
Too busy with their machinations.
All things that brought me fristrations.

And so i withdrew.
Took too the peeks.
Forged myself a new identity.
Without the screams.
Without the slaughter.
I much prefer this quarter.

I’m no soldier, or secret schemer.
Just a man wanting to be sincere.

Mask worn day in and day out.
Dance like a seal to keep from argument.
Performance worthy of awards and trophies.
Little does anyone know.
Every second with you poisons my soul.
Terror keeps me awake.
The four hours you permit me to take.
All so I can climb back on that wheel.
Make another wodge for you to legally steal.

Cyanide smile.
Murder right behind those eyes.
Vicious with vitriol.
You demand control.

Shackled away from prying eyes.
You bully with threats of bloody suicide.
Digging deeper into my battered skin.
All marks temporary and publicly hidden.
Doll out on display.
My mind has long since begun to fray.
Toxins pump in my blood.
If only your reality was not misunderstood.
Sadly you exude calm and joy.

Cyanide smile.
Murder right behind those eyes.
Vicious with vitriol.
You demand control.

Victim is the word out your mouth.
You not me is what you spout.
My head spinning from your endless noise.
Freedom, I beg but am ignored.
Rather you slip in another dig.
Pain afflicted.
You swear it’ll end if I obey.
Meekly I say; I believe you and its ok.
Again I’m in a trap you laid out for me.

Cyanide smile.
Murder right behind those eyes.
Vicious with vitriol.
You demand control.

If you stumble I’ll pick you up.
No matter when, where or over what.
As my shining light, my single constant.
I’ll never quit no matter fucking what.

Come what may, we’ll survive everyday.
Hear me, believe wholeheartedly!

If I suffer, you’ll be at my side.
Give me a safe place where I can hide.
Stand as my beacon of prosperity.
Never will I be without your decency.

Come what may, we’ll survive everyday.
Hear me, believe wholeheartedly!

Together we are stars.
Nothing can dull us down.
Could even put us behind bars.
Parade us through town.
Caged like feral beasts abused.
Everyone laughing amused.
Still we would stick like glue.
For we are both one and two.
Inseperable like ying and yang.
Oppsites bound for all time.

Come what may, we’ll survive everyday.
Hear us, believe wholeheartedly!

Deafened by white noise.
I see only silhouettes.
Maybe it is you,
Standing on the precipice.
Screaming I hope you can hear me.
Or am I lost to brain entropy?

Stories I recall you used to tell.
I smiled under your spell.
Now there is a void.
My spirits need to be buoyed.
Yet I swear I saw you swan dive.
A move of certain suicide!

Bruised, swearing at gods above.
They have misunderstood.
I will shred their mortal shells.
For they stole… who’s there?
A one eighty reveals your there.
Upon one another we do stare.

Reunited, arms embrace.
Again I can feel your heart race.
Calmed I release my bloodlust.
You are the most just.
Never should this moment fade.
It never will, the debts been repaid.

Searching for my place.
Turning away from disgrace.
Seeking high and low.
Nowhere I will not go.
For serenity is the promise it holds.
Worth so much more than riches that can be sold.

Years have passed and still I seek.
Many around have grown too weak.
They barter for short-lived false joy.
Like a spoilt child with a new toy.
Interest fleeting and so I flee.
My quest has a vital unwavering meaning to me.

Nights grown long while days are dull.
I sense an impending travesty will cull.
Split the veil right into two.
I swear I will be standing beside you.
Not being beaten by bracing winds.
Hearing just beyond the fringe those foul things.

Blinding brilliance disarms my focused core.
From it shines more than I dreamed I could adore.
Reaching out I thirst to feel it, if only just this once.
Hypnotised I nearly succumb to its trance.
Disgusted I return to sense and conscience.
Only to throw myself back into my questing!

Two decades long, surrounded only by remnants torn.
I finally stumble, crawl and struggle into my position.
At your side and in the nick of time.
Radiance bathes and heals my affliction.
Born again upon the wings of a pheonix.
You whisper; we seven must cleanse that which is insidious.

Light blistering corruption.
Banishing away vicious seduction.
Right the wrong that has been done.
Return the blazing yellow ball of a sun.
And with all fixed we fade from this plane.
Between dimensions we shall rest ’til we are needed again.