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A pretty face, passing by
Flowers, in numbers
I can’t count
Forsaken
In the outer reaches
Discarded
I found you
My Mysterium
My deep blue well
Great cistern
Pooled beneath the desert floor
Sunbaked and dying of thirst
I found the universe
God, has blessed me
With nothing
But faith
Grace -
The point
From which I swing the sickle
Grazing pendulum
Like a church bell
Gliding through a wheatfield
Purity
With time comes prosperity
“I put my back into my living”
Reaping, weeping, seething
Preparing for moments that will never come
Spinning on the sidewalk,
Dancing like a madman
No one can see me
A ghost in the street
My god, nothing but faith
Nothing but faith
Kill the best parts
And kill the rest too
Suffer - in glorious agony
Proudly, in my misery
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Step on that beggar
Keep your coat
Pennies on the dollar-
Gas for the boat
The Golden rule
Quietly cruel
Is a smile through
The teeth -
People beneath
Grievously plead
For light through the seams
While mile high stacks
Puff blue metal smoke
Like fat fireside cadavers
In plush smoking coats
A Beast in a cage
A diorama king
The soft handed throne sitters
Pulling all the strings
Why is this happening?
Where are our wings?
Anyone can be replaced
Anyone
Anyone can be erased
Folk below
Clutch on their crosses
And pray to His son
Or some silent ghost
Patient like pilgrims
For sight of the coast
Pain is weakness
leaving the body
Seamless
Like systems
Built for the godly
Pain is weakness
Weakness
Leaving the body
Take out the trash
Kill any sign of the past.
Dead and vacant
The corporation
In palatial decoration
Folk below
Buried and naked
The slaves,
Gratefully patient
I saw it on TV
A son from his pulpit
Preach from a script
About two inches thick
A profit for hope
Got a printed proof of purchase
A breadcrumb and a joke
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Upon the deathless melange
Of dark shades
Black and blacker
Iridescent scars
Bleeding -
Through the black backdrop of evil
Negative space
Pushes and pulls
Heavenly bodies -
On gravity, revolve
’Round some invisible master
But what hides in the nether spaces
Rises, slowly, in us
Silent afternoons
In the bed under blankets
The world is darkness, but it is ours
We, the lighthouse
In a sea of despair
Dying flowers in a vase on the nightstand
A misunderstanding
Quietly fits in the crooks of our bodies
We are like ships
Passing in the night
Memories -
Coffins dragged,
Ripping downward in an ocean
As deep as the sunrise
When the lights are low
I can see you better
When the lights are low
I can see you better
Turn
Turn and face me
Show me the side of you
So tender
That cuts through my heart
Nothing’s sacred anymore
Nothing keeps us awake
“Take this cup of sorrow from me”
Take it.
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Severed
13:36
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She’s screaming
in the alley
“Get out of my body”
Pushing carts for cans
Fire on hand
burnt spoon,
Galley on the ship of gloom,
Spinning nights, like
threads, on the devils loom
Solemn witches ritual -
No one can hear you
scream in hell
Blown glass
gargoyles crawl down
Spray painted gauntlets
In a real bitches brew
I can hear everything
But I can't hear you
Staring at the rafters
counting lights
I don’t want to die
Sweet mother
the wrong I’ve done you -
Her little boy
In a Tinfoil reverie
You gave me everything
I wanted to go somewhere in the world
To stake my own claim
But the further I go, the less I become
*********
Whisper to me softly
Like snow on frozen bones
Like wind over the white sheets
That cover springs best intentions
He hung himself from the rafters
So that galleries became gallows
In this ghosttown
Hanging down below
He’s hanging from the rafters
Like I'm hanging on to you
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The Darkling Thrush
09:03
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Stirring the silence
A screech, a sound
Withered leaves weave
And break against the graves
Mazes -
Places so sweet
Thrust upon the bolted bins
The discarded carefully sort
On corners
Faded florals
And green signs
on grey gallows
Sorting the black veins
That push the steel blood
Through this city
Memories
On every corner
A Shadow
In this city-
Tirelessly, effortlessly awake
Tirelessly, effortlessly awake
To see the sun
To feel this rage
What will set my heart ablaze?
Anchored, in the
Brackish lake
What branch can be reached?
To meet the golden day
And make happiness come back again?
Evening sky,
Light upon the leaves
Sentimental visions
A hideous derision-
It’s war that makes decisions
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Les Fleurs I
02:46
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Aria
High upon the silence
Primal
and as old as the earth
Feathered angels flit
And fill the morning air
In the realm of the dead
Sits death in a flowerbed
Crown daisies rise
like christ crowned in thorns -
forlorn
Through fresh cedar caskets
Of forests now replaced -
Banished
But for this trace
From Eden’s warm embrace
Still -
Bearing boughs
And green Wreaths
the winged angels keep.
Their dreary elegy,
Like man from grace -
Escapes
From the earth
To the heavens
And hell below-
The wind blows wide
Open my eyes
Show me the way to
Life after suicide
Crown of life -
Crucify and rise
Paradise to gloom
Chrysanthemum Coronarium
to the Coroner’s loom
Spinning, Chaos and Old Night -
For Lucifer and Man -
Not the crown of life presumed
Choosing left for right
Forever -
Crown of life
Crucify and rise
Flowers red and white
Guide us toward the light
But Flowers on a grave
Must grow through the night
On a Grey morning
Song birds sing
the mourning elegy
On wreaths -
Their doorstep threnody
A melody in rings
Is the Crown of thorns to be?
I guess heaven just forgot
An earthly thing like me.
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John Steven Morgan Oakland, California
Composer, Pianist, Drummer, Busker
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