Scaffolding
Time 5:55
I saw you climb the scaffolding
Seeking higher ground when you'd have surely been
Better off below
I saw the neighbors clammoring
They try to talk you down, it's bad behavior in
Sight of Oakhurst Row
I heed the signs, I shut the blinds
I chase my tail, I learn to fail
I saw you cornered in an alleyway
You thought was open road,
You thought you'd broke the code
To a higher plane
I overheard a neighbor say
She saw how hard you tried
But then you went and lied
And said you felt her pain
I weather storms, I have my thorns
I stand my ground, pre-sight and sound
I saw you climb the scaffolding
I saw the child in the swing
I saw the demons you implore
I saw you slowly close the door
I know why you try: only birds and angels can fly
A man on the ground is easily found
Gate Paragate Parasamgate (ditto ditto ditto)
I saw you fill the camera
Dimples and chagrin, I must admit I've been
Focusing below
Wide eyeing angles you deploy
Deconstructing men you self destruct again
Eyes upon the goal
I need the signs, I meet the minds
I tend the goal, I pay the toll
The Desert
Time 12:42
Reflections on the sand we made our way across the searing plain
And we called out and we saw into our own doom
And we listened but believed no one
With passions on demand we wore our hearts out
Handing out our blame
And we cried out when we thought no one could hear
Our admission of our pain and fear
They say there once was water
They say there used to run a river
Through the middle of the town
The well that now spits sand and gravel
So full a man could drown
We watch the children play here
Dusty dreams and windswept wishes
While the elderly complain
Of numbered days and failing senses
Of life lived on the wane
This dry delusion, this pale illusion
the one solution to this confusion is this:
The desert calls to me and though I know not why
I choose to go
To the lifeless empty wasteland that I love
I pursue that sandcastle mirage