(enough) i've had enough now is my time to cut down (to the bone) and strip away useless flesh i am bone-soul now let me rattle while you tremble (so uselessly) i'm going three ways now- and the one you find is the one you'll find forget the other two they're useless (to you) now i'll take my bone-self bone-walking (and) bone-finding histories you've only (so recently) forgotten and i'll build a fire and i'll pray and i'll chant and i'll take my bone-self bone-wishing (and) bone-wandering across histories you've (only recently) forgotten laugh, laugh it's all you can do now now that you are dead and wandering i'll be here waiting for your return all bone-whittling and bone-whistling laughing now that you are gone oh, hear me, hear me beat, beat against stretched skin drums that pound memories into your skull till all is nightshade all is nightshade and we'll dance bone-dance (to) bone-songs and dig deeper because it's all that's left now one big pile a flame-less bonfire every twig a bone and every ash a memory-lullaby whispering goodbye whispering goodbye when you return i'll be bone-here (and) bone-in (and) cutting deeper dancing alone in the hope that the children we never had will (always) remember the old ways we never had the chance to know dancing, dancing bones scattered because the meal is over and all we want now is to sleep (bone-sleep) and dream (bone-dreams) and never ~ ever ~ wake up again take one last bone-breath (and) recede don't worry we'll never be (forgotten) again

12/09/2002

Author's Note:
When I die, please spread my ashes in the ocean. I want to go back home.

This is the after-birth to (two-thirds {dream-child}). I'm not pointing that out to make one seem less than the other or redundant, only because I feel that it's important to show their chronology.

Thank you Bruce for pointing out the typo! :)

Posted on 12/09/2002
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