Scarlet sky in mourning, humankind heed this warning
Avoidance of truth disrupts the balance

Why are slanted dogmas so consumed by the mislead, the masses?
Do you not see the red herrings of humanity?

My eyes are dying stars
Watching those who brainwash and baptize
And my nightmares of their domination bear down on my heart
With a rusted iron fist, divine, in the name of God
Strangles the heart, a first love deceiving
And I am no longer blind to the lies

Autumn leaves in winter, my conceived "kingdom come".
Breathless sighs, silence and brightness erased by grey smoke.
The forsaken skeletons stand above during the changing seasons,
Observing mortality fail, burned by the desert sun, forgotten as spring arrives.
A new vitality as memories fade and decompose.

Knowledge of nothingness leaves me trapped in a cinched and strangled heart.
Thoughts control my soul and spin it into insignificance.
Questions of existence, the why and how, and then...
This lingering fiery feeling, that is neither a thought nor a question.

The answer screams to be realized, or this is the feeling of nothing.
To be trapped by knowledge as death claws at the edge of the mind.
To realize humanity's mistakes, and understand insignificance
While crying chestnut eyes stare at dying scarlet stars and begin to understand fear.

12/10/2005