1. THE PATH I

Stars paused their Allemande
When I spoke my name,
I felt the pull toward the sun,
Flaming chatter waned.

Old one that I fear,
Old one that I love,
Old one that subsumes me,
Passions won.

When the circle closes in,
I press my wings firmly out,
With burned intent.
I am unraveling, untying time.
To the void that sings to me,
I toss the line.


2. SCORCHED EARTH

On the edge of a knife
I feel I’m falling over life
Fling open wide your citadel
At the precipice of hell
I feel the mantle of a soldier
My existence smolders
I toss the flame through the veil
At the precipice of hell

I clear my path, a scorched Earth
My flame births the ashes
Here I’ll grow my worth

It is time I heed the call
Voice steely from the fall
Fling open wide your citadel
At the precipice of hell
I feel the roar of my soul
Fighting pain, becoming whole
I toss the flame through the veil
At the precipice of hell

I clear my path, a scorched Earth
My flame births the ashes
Here I’ll grow my worth

Up through flames I rise
Finding breadth in the skies
Up through flames I rise


3. BLOOD

Dry lips taste death on salty seas
Are you beyond the swell?
I feel brittle sand ‘neath my knees
It knows, but it won’t tell me

Where are you?
Where are you?

In the mist of dreams I sense you
Damp on my skin, absorbed like tears
I need you, stay in my blood
I am you, we are one

Numb hands in snow will freeze
If I dig my way to hell
Truths hide in tendrils of jungle trees
They know, but they won’t tell me

Where are you?
Where are you?

In the mist of dreams I sense you
Damp on my skin, absorbed like tears
I need you, stay in my blood
I am you, we are one

I wake to dream, I dream to see
Aural visions of the knell
Through the haze your hand
Reaches out to me
But where?
Why won’t they won’t tell me

Where are you?
Where are you?

In the mist of dreams I sense you
Damp on my skin, absorbed like tears
I need you, stay in my blood
I am you, we are one


4. LILITH

Ash crumbles from your tongue
Earth beneath your nails
I prefer to spread my avian scales
Finding perch in the heavens

From the light
I fly into the night
Finding places for my soul to breathe
In the fight
I stand up for the might
Of my voice
It cries to be free

Are you from above
Are you from below
You have no power to tell me
With your earthen lips, where to go

From the light
I fly into the night
Finding places for my soul to breathe
In the fight
I stand up for the might
Of my voice
It cries to be free


5. EVE

I was nothing, you were time
Cold, wet, reclining
Deep into dawn I felt your breath
Slither in my ear

You said for a taste
There’d be no fear

Up I rise from seas immortal
Feel my timeless reach
Suns may die and moons they rise
At my word, for I am Eve

Haloed, naked, moon behind
I feel wet clay dry
Nightmares forged in seams of dreams
Wrap your scales around me

I stand, baked by heat
You could set me free!

Up I rise from seas immortal
Feel my timeless reach
Suns may die and moons they rise
At my word, for I am Eve

In my dreams I see the door…
Floating, wrapped in blue
In my dreams I pass on through
Dancing on star

Up I rise from seas immortal
Feel my timeless reach
Suns may die and moons they rise
At my word, for I am Eve


6. ALCHEMY

Your fires freeze me
Rivers of icy flame
That flows from your tongue
Envelops me, envelops me again
Your agate streams to my tiger’s eye
A journey into your lust
A fire beneath
Blackened, blackened crust

Oh, a universe of sighs
Oh, how far between?
These ridges of identity

Your hot winds, they floor me
Breath released, a smog
That sticks and obscures
Smothers me, smothers me in fog
Your granite zenith
Hides me from solarity
Too much to bear, you are
Towering, towering into polarity

Oh, a universe of sighs
Oh, how far between?
These ridges of identity


7. WAYFARING STRANGER

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Just traveling through this world of woe
Yet there’s no sickness, toil, or danger
In that bright world to which I go

I’m going there to see my father
I’m going there no more to roam
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home

I know dark clouds will gather round me
I know my way is rough and steep
Yet golden fields lie just before me
Where the gods their vigil keep

I’m going there to see my mother
She said she’d meet me when I come
I’m only going over Jordan
I’m only going over home
Over home


8. THROUGH THE VEIL

Looking back at the shadows
In the thickness
At your form so close…
Can’t shake this sickness

Looking back at
Hands I adore
At your form so close…
Why couldn’t you be more?

Be more than streams of gray
More than shadows weeping
Substantial beyond tears
Strong for arms’ keeping?

Looking back, looking back
At your freezing, hovering breath
At your form so close…
I part the veil of death

Be more than streams of gray
More than shadows weeping
Substantial beyond tears
Strong for arms’ keeping


9. SLICE OF TIME

My wild heart grieves
Seeing how the night leaves
Shadows from my sight

My hands become granite
Placed in the light velvet
Touch I lost in dark

Like the distant static of memory
Like the ghost touch sensory

The light, it drives the hellhounds away
If I can hold it
Time, it drives a blade through the voices
Cutting through words and through dreams
Time is a sword, a sword

My wild heart cries
Blindness in cruel light
For I’m wounded by day

My hands become stone
No more fire in my bones
Left cursed by this mark

Like the distant static of memory
Like the ghost touch sensory

The light, it drives the hellhounds away
If I can hold it
Time, it drives a blade through the voices
Cutting through words and through dreams
Time is a sword, a sword

The light, it drives the hellhounds away
If I can hold it
Time, it drives a blade through the voices
Time is a sword, a sword
Time is a sword, a sword


10. THE PATH II

Dusk falls upon Gavottes
I have yet to dance
I feel the pull toward the moon
Waxing in her glance

Old one that I know
Old one that I am
Old one whispering sylvan songs
Rooted where I stand

When the circle closes in
I press my wings firmly out
With burned intent
I am unraveling, untying time
To the void that sings to me
I toss the line