Miss Icarus

'Self destruct mode'
I heard those words
Spoken of you

Imagination wild
Paints a horrible picture
Watching you fly
Too close to the Sun
For no better reason
Than fear of the ground.

Come back down.
Burn your wings.
Look at him nearest
And remember what happened
When he didn't burn his.

They finally broke
When he hit the ground
Is that what you want,
Unpainted clown?

But discipline fled
Sometime before
Now emotion controls you
Dangerous, Impulsive
Ruling your head.

You always return
Like a moth to flame
To put out the light.
I pray for the rain.

They used to unveil buildings here, and people would applaud
Now we grasp the sandstone with one hand, in a fearful death grip
And we erect another cage of steel and glass with the other

This place is a black hole, a void of meaning
It changes people to bank accounts to cars to mortgages
To nice teeth to a good job to nice kids to pension plans

But I'll be there, in every nook and cranny
Drinking water from drains, smearing bloodstains on the sidewalks
Inscribing my name onto the walls

Thunderbolt

Do you remember the day that we met?
We got drunk at a party and you made a bet
That we couldn't get the parents to dance
For their son on his birthday, I'll never forget
When you took his father and I took his mother
Later they the left us dance with each other
We span around and I looked at you
I got confused that we knew one another

C/ Thunderbolt from up on high
You struck me down with a lightning strike
Thunderbolt will you tell me when,
When will you come and strike me down again?

Do you remember you kissed me outside?
Then under the table when we went back inside
You said that you wanted nobody to see
Whatever it was that you wanted to hide
But I didn't care so when you went upstairs
I dragged you to bed and we fell asleep there
Holding our hands I was thinking of plans
And knowing they could never go anywhere

C/

When we awoke later on in the day
You found my phone after losing my name
It's a shame but I blame all the gin that we drunk
For a change I don't care I still feel the same
I cannot forget someone I barely met
I'm glad that we did and my only regret
Is that you will be gone for seven months long
And the briefest encounter is all that I get

Thunderbolt from up on high
You struck me down with a lightning strike
Thunderbolt will you tell me when,
When will you come and strike me down again
In a flash I was smashed when you crashed through me
Blowing out the cobwebs that I couldn't see
I miss you already yet I don't know why
I hardly even saw you, Thunderbolt in my sky

"your old road is rapidly changing."

a once forgotten memory
resurfaced
a ripple on a something crossed so long ago.

isolated in a dark room
a red light glowing as the mind ceases to accept outside reality
until it comes barging through the obscure black and white print
there
before eyes which though blinking still see it clear
crystal clear

uncomfortably clear
and while questions abound
a simple phrase echoes
incessently
"dont think twice, its alright"

breathing constricts as vision blurs
2am, 3am, 4am, 5am
the clock no longer has seconds, just hours
endlessly ticking until hours no longer matter
daylight and night is the same

everyplace looks the same
while the yearning for difference dies
without even being realized
a contintent streches before and the bumps even out

people traveling, migrating
while change is being accepted as not change at all
and a window looking out into the world sees only the world
as if the world could fit into a window frame.

Out of the darkness
From shadows of past
Spectre, you move
Deceptively fast

Instinct, my hero
Forces my breath
And my hand to my side
It anticipates death

Drawing my sword
My breath in the air
Heavily frightened
By something out there

Thought you were slain
The blade in your chest
Your body so deep
Your soul laid to rest

But no, I can see
When I look at my shoes
Your blood is upon them
A tell-tale clue

And when I look back
Down the well travelled path
I see my own footprints
Lead into the dark

Now in the silence
I wait for your strike
To rain down upon me
In the blackness of night