Lay With Me

Brought to heights like Icarus
To fall as only Satan knows
To have danced in the courts of Dionysus
And tread where Persephone's garden grows
Light and dark, so oft the same
Another rose, a different name
We pick our cards and play the game
We want the choices but not the blame
We fear the loss just like the gain
Live for the pleasure and the pain



Just don't pretend you never knew
When this dance is finally through
We grab our coats and bid adieu
And it ends like these things often do



And one day when the memories are faded
We've forgotten why we walked away
The celluloid in our minds degraded
All we have then is what may
Or may not have happened had this or that
Become tomorrow and that next day
Found us arm in arm, and all that matt-
ered was the interwining
The rune stones of our own divining
All came back to decisions made
How the sheets turned down in these beds we've made

Commotio Magna

She is all I want

She is all I see

When I close my eyes in memory

I feel like I can't breathe

Between the here and now

And the winds of destiny

Is so close and yet somehow

It simply wasn't meant to be

In the wings of heaven

I reach for you and you touch me

Amidst clouds and smoke

We act out our symphony

If I had faith back then

Would I be alone again

Or would our souls intertwine...

Regret is such a private hell

Am I the angel that fell

Or do I love a lie?

This shaking sickness that flows through me

Takes me to the floor through buckled knees

Cough through the sobs, cry til I choke

I still can't believe

That any loving God could take you away from me

Together at the altar, alone at your grave

And I count the days til I see you again

Like moments loaded into the pistol

Shot my life away

Every drunk and broken dream

Dissipates with the light of day

And you're gone again

As the cold sets in

I cling only to the memories

Wanting

I want to be alone

I want to run away

I want to die in your arms someday

I want to be your friend

I want to make you smile

I want to be your only one

If just for a while

Heirophage (Grey Staircases)

Amidst the spiral staircase

Ever onward up and down

Looking glasses come face to face

But I can't describe what I've found

Through the endless jagged hallways

Worn smooth by all my pacing

The difference between now and always

Memory versus mind's erasing

I whisper to once more hear my voice

I choke back sobs when I can't contend

I scream into this void of choice

Of lunacy where I pretend

Raw and broken I stumble sideways

And fall right through another dream

Knees weak I stand to find the pathways

Beneath the Styx and Stygian stream

And Lethe cannot my soul allay

I don't remember, but still repent

Still I mourn some random day

What hasn't passed from me yet

In this maze I endless wander

Wondering what will it take

To no longer have my heart pine yonder

At last this nomad's soul forsake