Hope

Anathema

I was not put here by anyone in fear


I came alone as me


Just an idea in a long chain of discovery


Surrounded by the same you





Sometimes your tide pulls me out to sea


And I die in a thrashing curse


Sometimes we are kind


More often, I doze


So far up the beach that those who try to reach are burnt


alive in the searing heat of the desert of my dispassion


So far removed, I never hear the water


'Cept once or twice a month when I see a mirror





And I refuse to believe in some of the things that are said to be here


Let alone those that are not


I'm trying to change my direction


Ours is pathetic in my own humble estimation





I love the planet


The great benign she-wolf


Benefactor


Spinning gently on towards the red giant four aeons hence


When all the rose gardens are consumed in the flash-fire of flying time


She'll leave alone to you





When you look at me


From your own century


I may seem to be


Strange archeology


But when the winds blow


From this direction


You may sense me there


In your reflection


I think I feel you


But I will never know


As the swallows leave


And the children grow





I wanted to live forever


The same is you will too


I wanted to live forever


And everybody knew





When I caught you there


In tomorrows mirror


I thought felt you


Jump out of my skin


Throwing oil into


My blazing memories


Filling empty footsteps


I was standing in





I wanted to live forever


The same as you will too


I wanted to live forever


And everybody knew





As the falling rain


Of the northern jungle


Hanging droplets on the leaves


Bombards my brain


I hear you


Across the room


A sea of daffodils spring into bloom


You are the mist


The frost across my window pane


And again





She moves her body


And her whispers weave


And the world spins


And tells me that I'll