1. WINGLESS MULTITUDES

Bow down before the rain
Bow, knees on the ground, all you men
Wait for one last storm
And avenging hordes

Billions of strangled angels
Starve for haloes
Sleepwalk on a paper bridge
Under a plastic vault

Wingless multitudes
Swoop down on bottomless wounds

Archers in rows
Rain fire from skies
Armoured shadows
Walk in line

Seven eyes bleed
Crimson floods
Seven seals
Trumpets blown

Raging steeds
Locust clouds
Blood rain spilled
As stars fall down


2. HOSEA 8:7

He who eats the world
Shall swallow the void
He who breaks the mountains
Shall choke on dust

Sleeping swans on a satin rippling lake
Whispering seeds of storm
Fading light devouring grace and silhouettes
Is the wind I've sown

Pillars cracked, fractured doors
Hounds uncaged, endless roars
Soar from deep open sores

Wind has blown on the wheel
Spun it round, split the shield
Awakened beasts of prey, les chiens de tempêtes
The multi-face plague, the mirror threat

Now that all the devils are here
Who shall hear, who shall come
Who shall scatter razor tears
Spears and daggers, sharpened thorns

As the whirlwind blows my breath away
Who shall bow, who shall pray
Who shall sow these silver drops
So I may reap this cleansing flood


3. ALGID TROY

Wordless shadow-play
Aching view
Algid Troy - ice made flesh
The great void - broken pledge

This hallowed strand
My beloved land
My dreams are but eidolons
Asleep in a vale of sand

Wait... sunken
Basement
Ashen
Crescent
For nothing... messiah
Dormant
Saviour
Torments
Crave... brazier, rodent
Dreading giants
Pyre, frozen
Winter, laments

Waive and feign...
De gel et de cendres
Un souffle à pierre fendre
Petrifying the sun
Snowing all around
Burn... flowers, wiltred
Ribbons, blackened
Wave in her hair
Like dying garlands

Yearn in vain...
Et à bridge abattue
Fuir le long de ces rivières
Le poison, la cigüe
Ce céladon de chair


4. THE BURDEN OF ALMOST

Mother of all dreams
Glints sway in the breeze
Comet tails trail ripped sails
Ideals pale and frail
Columns to spear the dome
But streets are paved with mold
Head nods in silence
As entrails shout behind lowered eyes

Chasing cherished shades
Building walls and ruins
Looking down from barricades
The brothers we could have been
But we're just lone soldiers
Against the world, against the wind

I can’t give way to dust
And jail ghosts in the womb
Too crestfallen, too lost
To besiege your wounds
So tired of this almost
I won't adorn your gloom


5. LOST EMPYREAN

At first light
Flesh was glass
Porcelain hands drew
Wide open seas of dew
Torrents ran free
Around cherry-blossom trees

But ever after is
A promised land in dust
A split-second gift
This eden that banned us
Oh, springs lost

Immured blaze, grace injured
Hazed empyrean, blurred

Time is slumber
Cradling ordeal
We were sparks and embers
The incendiary dreams
And we're nothing but matter
Gravity and fear

Flesh - shattered
Seas - anchored
Floods - are wells
Trees - in jail


6. A SEA OF LIGHT

As above
So below
Sand is foam
Morn as gloam

Gleams within
Cosmos shine
Respond through
Stained glass nights

Chalice, overflowing
This clean state-grail
Cleanses and drowns
My inmost self

Those eyes in the mirror
They cannot lie
They bring the deepest call
A breath of old, a vibrant void
A sea of light
Under the radiant rising sun
You fortress of my heart
It's over...
It just blows the mind
Nothing to leave behind
And nowhere else to go
Forever and ever It's happening now
Here on this road

We've sealed the door of bygone age
Scorched the earth
Erased shores, drained the sea
Of tranquility

We have tried another kind
We have tried a different way
Now a passion from the sky is coming
Down the ocean's waves
Then the sea just turns to fire
And the true ones sail away
From the city shrouded blind

Here there's a flowering
Spreading with the wind
...then falling down
Falling down...
It's flowering
Spreading with the wind
Falling down
Falling down... again

Your eyes
They cannot lie
They bring the deepest call
A breath of old
They bring a vibrant void
A sea of light
Under the radiant rising sun
It's over, everything's over
Everything's over
Forever... and ever

This power bears me away where there
Is no longer any shore
This power bears me away where there
Is no longer any shore
This power bears me away where there
Is no longer any shore
Wider than the whole sky
Brighter than any light


7. SARRACENIA

Mirage, hélianthe
Sarracenia
Mayflies, serpents
Exuvia

Feather I float, other I rove
Raintrees weep nectar through this lush garden
Oleander grove
Shut-eye on cain, wolfsbane bliss

Venus flytrap home
I drift in opium glow
Tear off pearls of venom
Ride nepenthe flow
In those lies of aconite
Oblivion, precipice of...
Light!