Falling like letters peeled off a page

We go into that treacherous cove

Where all abandon ends in light

And my pen trembles like a bow

You wouldn’t let me go alone

So here we are together

Every time I’d throw a stone

You’d feed it right back to me

Roll back the granite doorway

Reveal the cave

So much beauty hoarded here

So many good thoughts, of you

Shameful journeymen they’d say

That most wicked of escapes

Allows in me a fleeting breath

Of creative clarity, of substance

But still I took you here

And it is bad

Bad

Bad

Why fall in love with someone

Whose world is visibly dead

And strewn with the refuse

Of every Western principle?

Why follow me into dark corners

For just one glimpse of light

That burns hot for an instant

Until it disappears?

But you did

You are my guilt now

And my painful love

To have come down here with me

To see what I might find

There is nothing sacred so

Why this?

There is nothing lasting so

Why this?

There is nothing but love and

Short bliss

There is a world uncannily gone

Where my heart cannot allow

Fuck all of your religions

Fuck all of your taboos

Fuck your houses and your cars

Fuck the prison around your head

Set me free, let me fail and see

I know I will return because I believe

And if I die I’ll scatter my heart

All across our bed

So what joys are in the dark

Can come to light again

Ones like you and me

Journeymen who still live free

When we crawl out of the cove

Run our fingers through the red sand

And claim the rocky shore

Made to witness all around

Their dreary catastrophe

Their heartless epilogue

Their money-driven schemes

That made a world

Said no to authenticity

And died reluctantly