Sending Signals to the Sun

 

Part I – The Adrenaline Garden

 

Is it the constant charge of curiosity

Given to us at the gate out of eden

That also makes us run from the natural course

 

Is it the thrill of the hunt

The lasting uncertainties

That ends the seasons & starts new wars

 

To depend upon the faithless

To be free only by words

Long ago carved in stone

 

To make order seem so faceless

To be safe – always denied

The rights that we only find alone

 

Cursed to think – not understand

The way the wheels of all worlds turn

A strong dose of pills of mind for the banned

As they watch the trees rotting,

as they feel the pages burn

 

& we depend on books written

In the smoke of underground

Laws justified by a gun

 

But we’ll be lost to its shining

Forgetting who we’re made to be

When sending signals to the sun

 

Onto the tracks of time

Carelessly moved forward

We run

 

Part II – It Exists

 

The wall told you more than just a tale

When the one you painted on it stared back through your eyes

 

& the voices somewhere repeated a wail

Taking the son to earth & leaving the father in the skies

 

The wall spoke, but did you hear it well

Could you notice the shapes & the faces trying to change

 

When the song you sang echoed back from hell

& the tears of the sacred seemed so strange

 

But the wall speaks only what you want to hear

The voice of a god whose image you’ve created

 

& the echo speaks of that which you fear

In the arrival of the one long awaited

 

Part III – Stoner’s Lullaby

 

They told us of places & people that we’d see

One day, when our final crossroad is found

To the soul, one with all, they’ve given eternity

While leaving the body to rot in the ground

 

They told us of gates in the clouds, made of gold

They told us of angels that sing in the sky

But now I’ve learned that all they’ve ever told

Wasn’t much more than a stoner’s lullaby

 

They knew I needed a purpose, but never

Have they tried to help me find

The joy beneath the land of forever

The world torn between heart, body & mind

 

They told me of rebirth, repentance & regret

& the silence turned their faces in a lie

When I needed love, fear was all I could get

From their nighttime chants of a stoner’s lullaby

 

Part IV – Into the Waves

 

Once upon an afterlife dream, I believed

That all of this earth was made wrong

Grasping for the darkest days

To sweet tomorrow I belonged

 

Once within a faithful servant, lived such fear

Of that dream from which he wouldn’t wake

For too long he had lived, thinking

That all he’d done can’t be a mistake

 

’til they gave his body back to the river

In a straw filled boat, never to return

& the arrow flew to light a fire

To the one whose flames no longer burn

 

& now, where he is..? We might never know

& the light once confined is now gone away

To a land, unknown & unseen

That’s broken his small world of yesterday

 

N.B.

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