It is thy mother tongue

What holds you back from receiving thine gift 

From letting the love from reaching within?

Let thine spirit overflow with peace.

Please don't break it in pieces.

For I have built the foundations 

With pillars so high

And walls impenetrable 

But have survived countless wars

Impressions where we once stood

The dust has settled on our time

Centuries have overwhelmed us

I pass this on to you

The language of my fore bearers

You know my words speak life

And I will spew seeds

My roots will take hold

You grow a garden and I will give you an Eden

Taste this fruit

But know I cannot be the one who bears the guilt.

For I can't give in to my inner indignance.

Splinters in the minds eye have blinded us to truth

Plucked from the vine that entwines our soul

Missing the better half of me I never knew

Yearn for the days when everything was new

And beholden unto me is an angel

Conceptualized in human flesh

She has endured the pain of the world

But it has not hindered her wings

For she has soared above and beyond

Dashed through the flames

The foul miasma suffocating her

The derisions of demonic oppressors

Try as they might to break her stride 

And with the stroke of her sword, severed the heads of snakes

Plunged into the hearts of wickedness and cut out the tongues of devils lying in wait

And after the reckoning, she rests her tired form

Upon a cloud golden

Singing a song of victory 

To keep out inner hell

The serpent and the egg nestled around a candle flame

The fire is dying, can you feel the pain?

Nature has become your whore

Stripped barren of her seed

Spirits speak through wooden boards

Who's to blame for this indecent exposure?

Carnivorous beasts were once docile

Subterranean reptoids have infiltrated the sphere

Oceans have become graveyards for ships asteer  

Built towers to become Gods

Babylon has made it's home in the hearts of man

Erasing history does not change times shifting sands.

Drowning in blood of children, shot dead in the halls

Hanging from the umbilical noose of shame

Butterflies flutter in the brain

Reading the words of your opprobrium 

Skimming the surface beyond the surface of things

I claim to be an alchemist but everything I touch becomes fools gold

I died with a silver bullet in my back

Hanging a crooked picture of a tree

This isn't a country for any man

Vampires in the heartland 

Spent so much of it that I emptied the bank

It's not worth the weight in nickels and dimes

I'll hold myself together with twigs and twine

Substitution for a back bone

No, I'm not weak for wanting

My hands are bleeding

Because I took the skin of my teeth

And I bit down on the one that feeds

Selfish needs and dead leads

I'm chasing my tail again

I'm finding all over that

This isn't what I wanted

But I like to share in the

Exchanging of diatribes

I've reamed your ass a thousand times

And you still haven't gotten the memo

Excuse the part of me that is me

I thought maybe you'd figured me out

You're so goddamn indecisive

Split right down the middle

Clean cut above but you're still incisive

Artificially irrelevant

Perpetually irreverent

Can't disseminate between the riddles

It's easy to see why you care so little

I wish I knew where this car was taking me

Because the mileage is starting to creep up on me

I'm staring out the window and the ride is dragging on longer than anticipated

Not that I have anywhere to be but

I like watching the breath on the window fade

And writing my initials in the haze

But like it or not, I'm merely a passenger

I'm neither here nor there