Aurora

Aurora you were it
My everything I had
I crashed into your horizon
And washed you down as planned
And now I wake up missing you
And never had a chance
To follow in your footsteps
And rewrite all your pasts

This is the great hollow
Which consumes all beyond
No use feeling sorrow
The decay takes that too

Aurora my words wove round you
Trapped in your repose
And destroyed the truth, your suitor
And your heart beat on unfroze
And now you sleep in sunlight
Your skin never warms
Like an empty page in your novel
In which meaningless words swarm

And this is the great hollow
Which surrounds all, imbibes
Sucking in your tomorrow
Cutting in your strides

Aurora temptation struck me
To visit you again
My eyes fell on your image
And you stunk worse than sin
And I have come to despise you
Who was once my sole desire
The brambles of time may curse you
And be cleared out by fire

This is the great hollow
In which all truth resides
The menacing torrent of borrowed
Fame from morning’s tide
This is the great hollow
So go throw yourself in
I’ll make no farce sorrow
Into the adder’s den

Nightmares in Space

I’m in space, I’m in space, I’m in space
There’s no escape, just bubbles and paste, I’m contained
And I float with solar winds in my sails
The beams of morn eternal
The sounds of metal shells
Ping once more my radar
Clear once more my trail
Doth silence wail?

I’m in space, I’m in space, I’m in space
The comets are wraiths, bringing fire in their wake, to lay waste
And gravity’s absence wakes me as I fall
Through an endless pillow top
I sleep as a thrall
To my life support humming
As my vital stats waltz
The void exhales

I’m in space, I’m in space, I’m in space
Tin man, glass face, Radiation-safe plastic case
And I sleep for years, each day is an age
Nightmares of earth awake me
To thaw at transit’s end
My cryotank expels me
And waking sick begins
And this ends

This Mortal Friction

Again and again and again

We round each other

Side to side

Again and again and again

We circle a sphere

On the galaxy’s tides

Again and again and again

We lose we win and we grin

Again and again and again

And again

Again and again and again

We flail in sequence

And fall laughing

Again and again and again

We search for truth

And come up missing

Again and again and again

We dig deeper in sands of sin

Again and again and again

And again

Again and again and again

Gravity is in my chest

And it’s beatin’

Again and again and again

Each beat is closer

To my leavin’

Again and again and again

We don’t think of death ‘til th’end

Again and again and again

And again

Again and again and again

This mortal friction

Is boring

Again and again and again

Is this one really

The thinking end

Again and again and again

My head can’t manage the spin

Again and again and again; And again