Burn

Burn!
Set fire to the streets and houses
Take apart our kindling cities - turn the walls to dirt

What use have we of hollow things when all they hold is spite?
Burn them into shells!

Daggers of flame rip apart the skies
Wicked lights reflected in just as wicked eyes
We built, now we burn

We burn!
Heaven is too far away but hell lies here with us
With our hands we build a monster; Feed it till it roars

We all stand by the calamity, in awe
Feel the flames
As they grow higher and farther
And roar

Loud enough for God to hear
Casting shadows on the sun
Razing the horizon

Let's burn the homes
The phones
The cars
The clothes

Burn the laws
The rings
The prose

Burn to ashen clouds
And ember grounds
Fucking burn it all!

I Die Alone

I am high, broken, cast off and ornery
Lungs fuming frantic - Tearing holes in my chest
I strike out wild to the night searching for exhaustion
That just once I will wear out and expire

Sway through the lamps
Parked out on the slalom streets, tapping out Morse light
Coarse, bloated and drunk
I feel my pulse begin to slow and syncopate

Moving aggressively through cold air
My eyes won't stay still, won't focus
Can't breathe

With a sick heave I feel the wind in my ribs
I topple and land unconscious on the frozen ground

Respiration fails
Can't move

Still air looming above the buzzing lights
Pervading calm
Folded into snow
Fading with the evening
I die alone

Meta Contra

We are prodigal spawn of survivors
Given the scent of conquest

Uprighting ourselves atop mountains
We saw the distance bloom

Treachery grew from the ground that we walked on
Covered in shining gore

We gazed too far inward and lost sight of reason
Banished from our own stock,
We're obscured

Bastards of change with an ego that cannot be reigned
Our arrogance laid waste to the sightline of fate
Buried in abstract enactments resembling reason
This pseudo-life has taken a shape all of its own
We walk supine in our serpentine line

Slithering across a desert of spare time
Swallowing sand and mirages

The way is endless and we are heedless

Dragging out our own blood
Sensing umbrose carrion to crawl through

Twitching loose from living skin
Sight opaque for shedding eyes
Trapped in a shell of amber light

We are denizens of ancient Earth, stood up from the slime
Who walked so tall that our ponderous foreheads hit the clouds
Knocking us down

Cracks created
Forming a face with a trembling, drooling mouth
Inward poured the vacuum from on high
Over our heads, under our influence

Amazingly, those flecks of white aren't painted on the sky
They're unfeeling... inhuman

All that you perceive is in your mind
All that you realize is a construct
All that you feel is the instinctual sludge

At Any Cost

Heads lost
Bodies found
Saw it on the front page
Fables spun
Wove with crooked mouths
Filth slung
Dapper stooges trading blows
Weapons armed
The distance painted red
Legends felled
We celebrate a phoenix died

Ripe hope seen from rotten eyes
False words scribed in tied tongues
Paraphrased by dyslexics
A new bit-crushed demigod
Lowbrow in hi-def
Worship at the altar of neglect
Bowed with your legs spread

Indignify
Desanitize
Off end the gentle man
Suppress the masses
Enable the unable
Call it reformation
New wings will stir the ashes

All around
All for nothing
No tunnel
No light
No end

Omnis Valenza

TBA

Round Earth

TBA

Almost There

Biding for us at the end of a globe, all-the-way keeps away
Veiled by incomprehensibility - a mockery
We break our backs to walk on solid ground
With broken backs, we slow to a...

Crawl on knees and fists
These years are long
Crawl toward nothing, be always almost...

There, in the sky! I see tomorrow!
Shining with the sun like it was cast from solid gold
Darling features howl a siren song
Like mice, we fall...

Præy for time
Should we one day know
Pray we're not forever almost...
Almost there

Watch the sun pass over

In our hearts we harbor bitterness
Because every day that goes by
Is just another stone come loose from our plodding
Heavy souls drag through the dust
All while tomorrow shimmers just ahead
Overflowing with its song

Stoneclad

Memories, like phantoms in my head
My stolen past come to haunt me
Flow graciously through the eve
A stream of notes in the dark
They can't really be gone
Kept held by a fool

A fool entranced by a world that doesn't exist
A place I've been but cannot go to
The time there is aureate
Immaculate like I remember

As the movements roil between my closed eyes - livid with REM
I see delicate faces, pulled from stone - so familiar yet so strange
Calling my way
I wish that I could stay forever

But then my eyes fly open again
I'm standing in a field by myself with a ready gun

I wonder aloud 'How far am I gone?'
No response is said from the twilight melody
A languid stare casts back at mine
With untold eyes and a bloodless mind

Finally to Rest

In a realm where calm was kilned
We made our home and laid a stead

Days unfold
Many to sun
Some to rain
Others to rot
Always to night
Finally to rest

Air so new that our minds were clear
To chase invention and dilation
We sailed 'round a star
Gallivanting at speed through an endless black sky

What we've learned for our trouble
Is the absolute horror of humanity

Our avid glade swells
Through soil, sea and space
Our hearth is overtook and unkempt
Indifferent shadows keep company

We've fathered all this peril and forgot to raise our sons
Ignored maternal woes while preaching the unknown
Those before the crowd make us second guess ourselves
Cloaking their slick hands; Sat gilded on their thrones

Such waste of our time
More so as it's nigh

The Grinder

A mountain of hell with a mouth
Limber and viscous
It feeds on faith and grows enormous
Despite its size, we never see it coming

Drawn in
Split apart
Ground up
Forgotten about

A giant crater in the ground
Countless rows of teeth made from our skylines
Retching poison for miles around
Heaving warning so loud we can't hear it

The world doesn't give a shit about you
Your ego, your ambition, your afflictions
We want your blood and your soul
Go forth and get fucked

Feed The Grinder