I place my lantern

On the book of days

I keep my hands folded

When I enter the cave

My heart, it flickers

In the empty space

With no anchor of light

My mind moves away

I let my mind wander

Through the long, snaking caverns

I feel them upon me

The eyes that are watching

I withdraw from the light

With the spiders and vermin

They are old like the stone

That arose from earth's hatching

From icy winds, and violent seas

They retreated beneath

They bided their time

In an uneasy peace

To the cave, I go

For my mind to unfold

Its grants me its vision

In its chambers of gold

The earthly treasures

Are protected by dragons

From deep in their sleep

They can read mens' intentions

They guard ancient knowledge

That cannot be stolen

With fire, they baptize

The fools who would rob them

To the cave, I go

When my vision grows cloudy

On the wind, are the words

"As above, so below me"

It opens my eyes

Each time I lose sight

In my eyes, the flame flickers

In my heart, it resides.

Eyes, wild

Hands grasping for ground

When the earth broke open

And the seawalls came down

I grieved the blue sky

As I watched it take flight

I fell into the earth

The slow creeping night

There were rocks on my chest

Far too heavy to grieve

Fog climbed the horizon

Like ghost ships on the sea

The sirens sang

As they all gathered 'round

The angels looked on

Their necks tilted down

It was the song that drew me

To the place where men drown

Lulled into slumber

To the cold, cold ground

I came upon my body

Where it lay on the ground

In the old gray stone

That had all toppled down

I took my hand, kneeling down

"You'll be alright," I said

Anyone can drown

Darkness is your fear, my dear

But it can also be your light

"Dinna fash yourself," old friend

'Tis only this dream of life.

I roam the collective conscious

Where every path crosses

Where time circles out

Like the rings of a tree

I draw my protection

From the eight directions

The heavens unfurl

Like ferns at my feet

Under protective language

I move, undetected

While a thousand hands

Reach to bury me

It's a land, overgrown

By thorns and by thrones

Where the sun god is crowned

By the jaguar's teeth

Where heaven and hellscapes

Bleed together

Where fate grows crooked

Like an old apple tree

Where the Ouroboros

Draws ancient circles

And the serpent's tail grows

From the eyes that can see

I cross the great river

Where the sun creates mirrors

Where every reflection

Holds a dream and a fever

Where Sobek, the crocodile

Is god of the water

The source of creation

Destruction, and chaos

Sun rays bow down

Like the holy dove singing

She illuminates the wings

That I grow and keep hidden

One black, one white

The dove and the raven

In the palms of my hands

I hold hell, I hold heaven

In the Field of Reeds

Grows earth's ancient story

I gather red flowers

My memento mori.

It's like a dream, she said

Dancing on the glittery edge

He wiped the water from her head

The light came from her eyes

A bolt of lightning

Found her there

It struck her heart

And cracked the air

She loved the way

He softly stared

The light moved in his eyes

He took her hand

They ran away

In just one breath

She danced for days

He need not ask

She'd always stay

With him, she loved to hide

She need not speak

To keep him there

Electric love

Is bound to air

A starry crown

A silent prayer

The light poured from her eyes.

In the age of raging fires

Before the drifting snow

The scales fell from the serpent's eyes

And made the storms below

I stumble over God's creation

In the age of tangled ground

The roots exposed, the rivers low

I search for higher ground

How often I still feel it

Though it happened long ago

It knows now where to find me

In the space where thoughts can grow

How often I still fear it

The time my body holds

It nails me down into the ground

Where no one else can go

How often I still fight it

The night without the stars

In the darkness, I can hear it

As it moves beyond my door

How often I still find it

In the place where rivers meet

Where spoken curses bind the land

That breaths beneath our feet.

She saw the world

Before it was

The snake in the tree

The spider in the web

She heard the world

Before it was

The earth's long sigh

As the seasons ebbed

She felt the world

Before it was

The sun on her eyelids

An outstretched hand

She knew the world

Before it was

With arms wide open

In the lila, she danced.

Doubt meets its death

In the great divide

Where the earth is cleaved open

And the canyons grow wide

Where now, only numbers

Are considered new prophets

And the chosen few

Hold their science like crosses

Where the true believer

Is beholden and landless

And every doubt dies

As soon as it's planted

Where the eye turns blind

And the heart loses vision

Where we make our own tools

To build our own prisons

It's the same old muscle

But a different strain

It's the same old road

Just newly-paved

A good consumer

Buys what they sell you

The future is written

It's alpha to omega.

I saw you in the dark

You turned on the light

Oh how I love you, darlin’

And the moon is shining bright

Please don't let me go, my love

'Cause I need you

And in your eyes, I see

All that’s true

So pull me close, so close

'Cause I'm so blue

And every night, crawls on by

Without you

I saw you on that night

The way you looked at me

Your heart was shining bright

But mine was out of reach

Please believe me, darlin’

When I say

I want to pull you closer

Every time I pull away

My heart was broken

When I met you

You put it back together

So it belongs to you

You saw me in the dark

You turned on the light

You keep the rhythm, darlin’

And my heart is shining bright

So please forgive me, love

For all this pain

‘Cause when I open up my heart

It’s there running in my veins

And when I pull you closer

It pulls you, too

You hold my aching heart

With you I’m not so blue.

When he entered the haze

He drifted for days

He was more at home

To be farther away

Possessed by the pieces

A mind filled with pictures

He kept to the fog

To gather his distance

An untethered soul

Adrift in a world

Where the sky opens up

And swallows men whole

With no roots and no soil

Living things cannot grow

But what holds men together

Collects its own toll

He looked toward the ground

His demons crawled out

From under the roots

Came a low, rattling growl

He would need to dig in

To give up his wings

To begin a lone battle

With a great many things

The men who descend

Are the heroes, uncrowned

With no light to guide them

They fight their way out

They slay great beasts

That no one else sees

With no weapons in hand

They battle for peace.

A great earthquake came

That shook heaven and earth

The circle closed

And the four seas rose

Over the ocean

Across the sky

The third shaking of the earth

The opening of the eye

The coiling of days

The constriction of the snake

The rush of eternity

Hopi prophecy

Atomic gourds of ash

Shook heaven and earth

When the circle closed

It opened the sky

I awoke

To a song

Handed down

From the sky

Don't they know

It's the end of the world

It ended when you said

Goodbye.

If they take my eyes from me

I have other ways to see

My vision reaches back

To before men could see

Let it carry me

Let it deliver me

My vision

In the darkness

Like stardust

Surrounds me

It sings to me

It brings me dreams

One day

I know

It will grant me its wings

I will fly away

From all earthly senses

The leaves will all fall

Away from my branches

I will move freely

My vision, complete

A star in the sky

A soul gone to peace.

Suffer not

Your neighbor's affliction

Cast forth your certainty

And absolve yourself of doubt

For he who has immunity

Is he who is certain

The greatest sin

Is the sin of doubt

Suffer not

Your neighbor's affliction

Absolve yourself of righteousness

And extend your hand

The storm that brings harm

Also makes fertile

We build our own worlds

By thought and by hand

Suffer not

Your neighbor's affliction

Let it crumble

Let it fall

For he

Who is first

To cast stones

Is he

Who is first

To build walls.

I break through the surface

I touch bottom again

I see the sky

It's black again

The tide drags me

I let it carry me

I feel the turnover

Warm blood touching cold water

I feel the pull

I let it carry me

Floating under the surface

In the arms of the ocean

I bleed my heart out into the sea.