1. LOSING THE LIGHT

Serenity with all tranquillity
Vanished with a dream gone out of season
The hot blood of youth
Trails to marble halls
You took me by your hand
To gilded pictures on the walls
God how I loath them
But feel the need to kneel before them
False kings can make every jester
To do the death´s dance to their tune
Confusion in illusion
Closing in - closing to lead astray
Past days I knew my way
Now I know I am but losing the Light
For not all lights warm
Nor shine, nor guide
As along the way
Treacherous phantasms can drain out
An open hard and soul
Wounded on the road
These roads lead nowhere - yet I must walk them
The empty streets and empty nights
Empty hearts, their empty rhymes
Emptiness fills my mind
Separated from the Light
In a stranger is a friend
Watching your back - waiting to gun you down
Hold on to your cap n´bells
As I´ll sing you like in days of old
Of kings and queens of yesterday
Turned knaves of tomorrow´s court
And with scepters rusted
Now sowing no more sorrow
Like autumn´s last leaves falling
I know because I am one
Confusion in illusion
Closing in - closing to lead astray
Past days I knew my way
Now I know I am but losing the Light
Faint flashes in the cold city nights
Yet they blind me as I stare
The empty streets and empty nights
Empty hearts, their empty rhymes
Emptiness fills my mind
With all but one I can live
All the wounds can forgive
Should I once again see the Light
Where are your dreams, your high ideals now?
Did you drink them up or cough them up
Or burn them up in smoke and vapour?


2. THE DREAM OF A SEAR

Last rays of sunlight tear the veil
Between vision and reality
As fires light the autumn skies I feel
Borders of my mind reaching beyond me
The rational steps aside
From the dreams I can no longer hide
As welkin dances in moonlight´s glare
In front of revelations my mind lays bare
The piercing pain and its veiled hate
Of what was broken by misery of fate
No longer more than words a mime
It troubles me united with the sublime
And now I see
The shadows and reflections
Elusive shapes and projections
The vision vortex is arising
Gazing to a mirror
Scrying with a transcendent stare
Future´s frontier is nearer
As ancestors their wisdom share
Amids the shadow´s dance
Ruined cities and barren land
A grim prophecy within a glance
Of a future to be painted with a burning hand
Teared eyes through Aeons
Eyes filled with terror stare at me
As at the spectre of Death
Casting me out from vision divine
The mirror´s image stops my breath
That burning hand is mine.
Trembling I hit the ground
Laying still as in my burial mound
Soon rays of Sun will repair the thin veil they every night tear
And the Vision fades at the break of day


3. VALEDICTION

The Light illuminates the darkened cells of life
The Wave banishes the past
The Dream evokes a spirit flux
The Passion unites self with the now
And as a storm it arises
Fervour that once was...
...Passion - now shrouded in hatred,
Burnt by frustration, rusted in acid rain
On avenues swarming with with scoundrels and knaves
Kneeling before their lust as whores and slaves
Spawn of the night - drain my spirit!
In my veins boils the sap of a satyr
The minutes they melt in to hours
The hours they melt in to days
The past melts into the Now
One leaves the Now
When passion is lost along the winding path
And the storm feeds
The fervour that is now
A myriad of lights shine again -
But still in my veins flows the poison of mandragore
Memory is but pain trying to resurrect itself,
but what is there to resurrect when I can´t remember.
God I hate this fucking darkness.
Where did I loose myself?
I have forgotten now for I feel weary.
Fuck, I have to focus...
To find the Now
And once again these weary eyes
Through life blinded by Passion´s demise
Are afire zeal of Eros´ shrine
Burning the darkness like fires divine
Spawn of the night I shall be no more
For in my veins boils the Spirit of All Life
The storm and the fervour
As a gyre of passion
Encompass my mind
The Light transcends the darkness
The Wave corrodes the fetters of agony
The Dream evokes the wisdom of Anima Mundi
The Passion unites the self and the Now
And as I leave the darkness
I leave without hatred and without sorrow
Without anger or tears for tomorrow
And though I may never return here
I shall never fade away for
I shall live
Forever
In these words.