monster ballads

feel it coming



everything changes



thank god i don't want to stand still



all the time counts each moment as good as the next even the bad ones



i leave nothing out



not the lines



not the faith



not the wreck



keep them coming



don't turn away



the change is almost here.

beauty in the blood

take beauty



take it wherever you can find it and don't let go



the beauty is the main thing



is the blood that keeps us beating.

soon soon soon

hold my breath



caught 



with my fingers crossed



think back fifteen years





waiting time is not wasted time



it feels forever ago





that I didn't know you



and now here we are



here.

follow the call

heed this



and know that brambles can be pushed back



what is done undone



what is mortal made everlasting.



the world is so full



but most things seem empty



most people cowards



followers of falsity



unable to imagine a better beyond.



i include myself in this:



sad, stumbling along, begging for praise



acting in every moment the opposite of true.

clanging symbols

nothing is forever that's for sure



even what you think



tied with strongest bonds



there is nothing new under the sun



and don't I know it-



always harping on the same damn things:



oh--bliss uncovered!  oh--eternity fades!



don't I tire of myself?



banging loudly on this solitary drum?

inside

anything beautiful





can be ugly



can be rotten to the core



a dry, shriveled being turned in on itself.




sometimes all you need to lose love




is to know deeply.