Immortal thoughts

Immortal thoughts 2003

A shot in the dark
Out into nothingness
Anything to break the boredom
Any random future will do.

Building the tower
Just to tear it down again
Waiting for tomorrow
To kill today.

I'll take another drink
Just to warm the blood
And take another breath
Just to keep it red.

Another hour
To get through
Staring at the clock
And see it tick away.

Would it be any less wasted?
If I was asleep
Would it be any more profound?
If I pretended.

It is here
And now it’s gone
I was with her
Laughing
But now it’s over.

A strange disconnection
The one-way movement of time
Always forward but never certain
Like sands slipping away
That we can’t catch.

If we could go back
Would we?
And if we know we can’t
Than why do we always try?

Taking our knees out from under us
The unexpected hour
Like ten thousand needles
That pierce the skin
So slow in coming
Yet so sure.

Collected memories
Of dreams and anguish
Getting smaller and smaller
Until there is nothing left.

Running our hands
On the crumbled walls
How much the time has worn away?
But the bones remain.

We wrestle the thought
Turning it over in our heads
But lock it away
In favor of distractions.

But its still there
A specter in the mind
Like a dwindling hope of eternity
That we can’t deny.

Our thoughts race
From numbers to faces
And from joy to regret
Of all the things we’ve done
Or did not do
That we cannot forget.

Shout out the words
Just to hear the echo
Run in the rain
Just to feel the cold.

Imagine the surface above
And what it would feel like
Try not to fear
Or worry.

The secret isn’t hidden
Not anymore
But here for the taking
Fresh and new
All we have to do ask
And accept.

Somebody told me
And I’ll never be the same
Becuase I had been sleep walking
Down the path of death
But now I am awake
And broken inside.

Awakened by a comet
Against the odds of eternity
In the dark night of the soul
A second life
Better than the first.

In ten thousand years
I’ll still have more to write
But not like now
Half in darkness
And half in the light.

No longer alone
But with all of you
Our blood now immortal
And mingled in memory.

Each soul so different
Like love
Beyond our reach
To measure or value.

Unseen spirits
Everlasting joy
forever beyond death
And earth.