Awake to Death
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:43 am
Asleep
shattered memories
lain scattered in your head
a smudeon of hope rises
from the ashes of another
dream
So much forgotten already
just another lost vision
of the way in which
you wish it to be
Frozen
in time and dimensions
unknown and unfearing
unhearing conditions
left to carry on
forever
like a bronze acroterion
molded and set
to stand over graves
of the ones who sweat
and gave
blood and tears
until the end of their years
Holding as many
would hold a coliseum
branded for good
into this mausoleum
The dead make you shiver
and toss and turn
your lips quiver
and the eyes closed
still yearn
to just finally be
Awake
unbroken lives
still face the day
to breath and live
to work and play
so open eyes
to another sun
before we sleep
let's have some fun
as surely as life
from the womb flows
and endure such pain
as a murder of crows
black
pitch black
the sun of life is waning
to see in this dark
the eyes are straining
sun up
life
sun down
death
the next day
brings rebirth
newfound breath
the hours like years
the smiles turn
to tears
Awake with the sun
and live to
sleep with the dark
and die
shattered memories
lain scattered in your head
a smudeon of hope rises
from the ashes of another
dream
So much forgotten already
just another lost vision
of the way in which
you wish it to be
Frozen
in time and dimensions
unknown and unfearing
unhearing conditions
left to carry on
forever
like a bronze acroterion
molded and set
to stand over graves
of the ones who sweat
and gave
blood and tears
until the end of their years
Holding as many
would hold a coliseum
branded for good
into this mausoleum
The dead make you shiver
and toss and turn
your lips quiver
and the eyes closed
still yearn
to just finally be
Awake
unbroken lives
still face the day
to breath and live
to work and play
so open eyes
to another sun
before we sleep
let's have some fun
as surely as life
from the womb flows
and endure such pain
as a murder of crows
black
pitch black
the sun of life is waning
to see in this dark
the eyes are straining
sun up
life
sun down
death
the next day
brings rebirth
newfound breath
the hours like years
the smiles turn
to tears
Awake with the sun
and live to
sleep with the dark
and die