cry for stillness listen, that rhythm, that beat crashing and burning spinning and turning we’re dancing, we’re diving we’re dreaming, we’re scheming

light and scatter time shatters, shards, splinters, splatters we’ve only just begun voices crying out howling on the wind spin, beloved, twirl screaming in the desert wastes in the bleak, scarred wilderness of my soul

tripping and falling herking and jerking like an epileptic on speed the pupils dilate the heart beat races

we sing

dreaming spaces traces lost and forsaken

mark where the paths cross like a tight braid, a strangling skein destiny unyielding like a fly wrapped up in spider-silk still and lost gazing at the maw of death abrading and lacerating scraping and rasping

Death’s too good for ‘em.

Light! sing the glory of angels floating on the western sky like shimmering clouds firestorms of the fall, come early this blistering summertime this scalding solstice dessicating and despoiling

Blight! the empty interiors of my wretched soul the vast, haunted echo chambers, still and silent but even the darkness breathes the great winds sweeping

Still.

Brilliant Aching like crystal meth directly into the bloodstream I taste starlight and breathe the sun

spilling, brimming this corrosive acid glass etching burning away

it’s all just burning away

falling, fading twisted jaded we are one with the universe in its near-infinite emptiness the silence this deafening roar echoing within and without

8 minutes when the sun implodes it’s 8 minutes before the searing blast the nuclear holocaust stripping away electron clouds leaving superheated plasma streaming to the ends of the universe

Nothingness This shiftless chaos This quantum foam all that ever was all that will be

Nothingness still and silent in the darkness past midnight dreaming still of unicorns dragons and wizards princesses and knights of happily ever after and other such foolishness the wounded heart still beats the shattered soul still hopes I am cold and alone and still waiting for stillness