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Moth
07:30
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Hold these two swords
With both eyes closed
I turned to you
And you’re there with me
When can I open my eyes?
When can I carry on?
Red soil and ocean sky
Desert lips, still so dry
Reflecting
and glittering
Is this snow
or is this ash?
The fire burns
The ash still chokes
The rain still comes
As the lungs they quietly wheeze
I still dream
A mouth open
Your name I call
As I fall
That shame lives on It’s etched in the air
This rope I pull, only to find
No beginning, no end
Full dark, no stars
a fire
a string
two eyes they look through me
as I fall, into the abyss
I still see through
The Weakest piece of string
The moth’s wings hide two closed eyes
(the two closed eyes, closed eyes)
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Leering Birch
05:56
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Are Thou Wanderer?
Where will you go?
Under starlight?
Under whispers?
Calloused hand in hand
Dirt under each eye
Travel through my darkest nights
I Dwell
Bury me under
warmest sands
The sea so still
The sky still so grey
What connects me here?
land or the sea?
The end still comes I’ll
Know what must be done
You’ll ask me how
Will I exist?
You’ll ask me how
But I won’t know
(I DON'T KNOW)
on ashen plains I crawl
in dusted dreams thrice worn
shapes I’ve seen and believed
to be spoken and not seen
in an ocean of my words
sleeping beneath the sleeves
the secrets I know to keep
and the secrets that I wish to leave
be banished from my home
in exile wander the stones
the endless dream I conjured
to the worlds I dwell alone
vanish before my eyes
the writing kept in mind
for the years and years to follow
through the endless forest I pined
I pined
Translucent wings unfurl their frame
Worlds yet unborn will fold over in refrain
Blackened worlds abandoned by time
Watched over by faces I no longer see as mine
Its eyes made of light,
A goddess of dawnless night
This unending dream
I need it to be seen
Beyond the precipice of fragile memories
In certain light I can still see the pale lines
Just like before, on some distant shore
A place where we'll be and both become
You held my hand as dreams faded like stars
The fox roamed the beach, as wills travelled deep
We tended your wounds and looked at it all
Awaiting the end, embracing the cold night’s calm
Our loam is lorn
You yearned for the end, I dreamt of the start
I’ll wait for the fall like nothing was true
The sorrow that I dream of nothing but you
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Circles In Sand
05:36
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The silk sun from the other side of the rail
A mission marked frail, fragile as we descend
I’m still not used to the soundless sleep
As I lay on my side, the light in the blue dark night
The sweetest side, of your waving, wandering eyes
As I still wait for you, in the world above
My loam is lorn
in the darkness of closed eyes
in the brightness of my tears
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Through the ashes in snow a pale twin self
The needles in my skin the pain in my dreams
I still can’t see the colour of your eyes
through the trees I see myself
The moon rises (The moon rises)
The sun will hide (The sun will hide)
And the longest shadow (shadow)
Can only recede (can only, only recede)
Walk with me through the burning fields
Walk me beside the falling skyscraper
Walk with me hand in hand
Till the world burns to ash
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See
07:11
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Eyes under lids, blood pressed to skin The ghost of a sun and its light never seen
wallpaper white of a pale smiling twin,
A comforting dream
A need to be seen
I survive
I see through their eyes!
Empty the seas, drown in their storms Witness the end, of all things to come
Oh, Eyes under lids,
blood pressed to blood and to spirit and limb
Become again,
And again and again
That shame lives on!
Forlorn!
I still cannot see How
to be and not become
I dream every night of those stars that have already died,
I glimpse them in eyes too far and too bright to be mine
I see them as eyes, the stars through which I will survive
I see through their eyes, those stars that have already died
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On Some Distant Shore
02:47
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Endlessly
05:36
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Just beyond this pencil line
Etched in wishes
form a mirror
Reveal my truest reflection
Shelters no storms and drowns me under the waves
The waves that wash away my fears (my fears these years)
Of these memories
as I walk from sand into the sea
Where, where do I remember you?
As if in a dream, I wonder where you’ve been?
I have so far to go, when I closed my eyes
It was like a different shade of black!
I retrace my every step
Along this line of chalk and paint
Is it love and shame or fear and doubt?
Where do I remember these dreams?
In memory, will I carry on?
Shed this past so I can carry on!
Where, where did I leave myself this time?
Along these longing shores, where the sand has turned to stone and sea to dust!
I formed alone, I’ll fade as one
and from memories bed return to none
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