Where Night is Not Black

The mountain top high
Cold and forgotten
One with the sky
Clouds embrace my heart

Soft water lands on my hand
My body recoils in fear
The frozen droplets stick
Like a warm tear

Sin has turned my body
From the pure white of snow
My song has become a parody
Tribulation no longer love

Still, I stand back up from the grave
Take one last look at the stone
Touch my hand to the name
Close my eyes in silence
Fall in love all again
And walk away
In tears
cold

Plunging into flames, long
The ends curl in song
Like a demon’s hair
Lifting up voices of affliction

I’m consumed in erupting light
Flames set me on fire, alight
But now I’m crying, in anger
Pain my friend not my enemy

Flames soon blue dark
No more just a lark
The pain consumes
Like energy in the sun

Love from beauty has turned
Fields of green now burned
The rose I longed for
Lost in the smoke

I’m consumed in erupting light
Flames set me on fire, alight
But now I’m crying, in anger
Pain my friend not my enemy

The field was open, and I came
The rose stood alone, dame
I took the rose in my hand
The thorn pricked me

Poisoned, to the deep
My dreams take me, sleep
And I’m lost in fire’s storm
Trapped in eternal falling

I’m consumed in erupting light
Flames set me on fire, alight
But now I’m crying, in anger
Pain my friend not my enemy

So now love has consumed
Silence, I am ruined
I loved you
and you killed me

Locks of seductive hair
Hides your face, lair
I crept into that space
Touched the lips

I’m consumed in erupting light
Flames set me on fire, alight
But now I’m crying, in anger
Pain my friend not my enemy

Darkness, surrounds you
Covers you like a black hue
And I’m in love with it
But the darkness is not true

Nails painted like a nest
Spider web, touching my chest
I’m caught, poisoned by venom
Trust betrayed, no rest

I’m consumed in erupting light
Flames set me on fire, alight
But now I’m crying, in anger
Pain my friend not my enemy…

Trial of love, the court stands
Enters in love chains, guilty damned
Trial of love, the time comes
Lights off now, the evidence abandoned

Innocence like a baby deer on ice
Too young to know two plus two
Tried hard to show affection at any price
Too young to know, to love wrong

Simplicity of punishment, only one
Passion pursed without luck
Simplicity of punishment, forlorn
Isolated alone, stuck

Resentment of order’s yoke
For freedom, lover’s conquering hand
No longer subject, order broke
For freedom, flames melted away law

Reason banished far
Yet the embrace of calm lust
Reason banished far
Fervor now, no more trust

Brilliance but I’m dumb and blind
Lost in the light I cannot find
The solitude of your heart
The depth of beautiful eyes

Silence but I am waiting
Praying for, I fear saying
The words that I feel
The words that make you

Romance but I’m taken
Trembling I awaken
My love for you ignites
Your short answer invites

Memories faded ink,
Sun scorched parchments,
Miss if you blink,
Stars smile from above.

The wild rose grows deep
Trouble grows with time
Releasing the call now,
Like a lone bell chime

The moon watches far
As walking by water
Passing a sole star
Lighting the path we walk

Now lying still she sleeps
My lips catch her hint
Sweet like a wild rose
Eyes with a soft tint

Open now they beam
Like soft rays of energy
Feelings like a dream
Love as true as pure life

Unnatural length of night
Bright skies stand held back
Wild roses sleep near
In the darkness black

Up comes the morn sun
Now the rose has changed
Now unlike the one
Red now is the wild rose

Angels storm the citadel
The King is taken from his throne
Replaced by a heavenly angel
God looks away

Saved by grace no longer
Mercy covers only a multitude
The blood flows from the altar
But still salvation pervades

Has time gone to sleep
Crept into the shadow realm
Now children and demons weep
Holding on to the end together

Angels storm the citadel
The King is taken from his throne
Replaced by a heavenly angel
Jesus wept

Disgrace like blood clings
Last though to leave, also first
Honor stained by life
Now only for death do I thirst

Into exile, body not but spirit
Out of joy, arms now soiled
My homeland now memories
For all my brothers toiled

Left for good or worse
Right or wrong who knows
Writing my wrongs with words
Reading the lies I chose

White, snow falls, deeper
Black, clouds thunder, loud
Anger screams like a demon
But I in silence stand bowed

Intricate toy men wait
Waiting for commanders
Orders to receive
They sit forever, fate

Looks like no children will play
Into darkness she passed
Solidarity for the solider
So a man of war must pay

The sword falls not
Disease creeps over the walls
No strength may hold back
The bodies fall, they rot

The strong men would defend
Weak children and mothers,
But the war is raged
And the men cannot mend

No blood to wash away
The city burns away the stench
The skies open and pour cleansing water
No more will children play

The silence that has succumbed,
Beautiful, because we won
The atrocities are cleaned away
Truth we have numbed

A thousand eyes follow the dreams
Fear banished to cold mountain peaks
A nation sleeps watched
All seen, even the baby screams

Surrender the individual to the whole
Make one out of two
Suspend reality for a minute
Let go of your moral soul