16 May 2011

Night song

I'm a bit at a loss again today: 
Family, obligation, virtue, doubt, love, loss, death. 
Here's what's come of it:


Under these stars
beneath these lights
we rip ourselves open
with all of our might
and all that holds silence
all that holds right
pours out itself 
into us tonight

While under the moon
within this light
we pour out our words
we bleed out the night

Beneath these stars
under the night
we bind up our wounds
we bleed out delight
till all of our sorrows
rage blind and white
and stare us down then
we see without sight

While under the moon
within this light
we pour out our words
we bleed out the night

These ropes and barbed wire
these teeth that bite
in such caves of steel
grows love's stalactite
in falling, in failure
in slow born requite 
waters bending to stone
re-framing the plight

While under the moon
within this light
we pour out our words
we bleed out the night

 

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