1. FOLLOWING LIGHT

So goes the darkness
Following the light
Temple of sorrow
Blinds my eyes

To extinguish the ever-glowing embers of curse
Relinquish your fingers from the wheel of the hearse
Extreme yes, but this is what life will do
The genius of the internal drive to lose
Come seamless, unglued
Now do your worst


2. NIGHTBRIDGE

Watch, now feel grief dance and flicker
A beacon on the black pacific
expanse that bridges to the dead and gone
and past and done
and on and on
It swallows whole
the lightness and vibrance
Heirophant violent
Violet Crown upon his head
The ground now silence
Winds die down
We saw the waters seize the town
Sighed for every island drowned
The side of each that is the crowd
capsized and breached the vessel proud
And we become unknown to us
Ennui beckons a home for us
We seek and seed forgetfulness
on ceaseless seas of errant dust

Here I stand before the nightbridge
Rising stone to midnight sky and
here ancestral vestiges they lie
Far beyond you and I and
Now this essence
Now this question
Soul of every question itself
Here I stand before the nightbridge
Here I leave behind this shell

Sleep now for no tomorrow
Wish now for days no more
Sigh back to blurry vision
Time lost on darkened shores
So goes this darkness, this fever partner
So goes this nightmare, this blood regret
So goes this harvest of time's dominion
I'll break this silence yet

Shame
Dust, and errant flicker
Hateful sign, nor guileful lie
Hide us in the black pacific
Hide us to the all seeing eye

Grown and gestated
Our love and hate take flight
We say goodbye
To gods and lovers
To dogs and mothers in the sky
I am become a darkener of doorways
My name now cast into the fields
of the unuttered
I drink again
of what it is to lose completely
The water of regret
Forgot not this sinking