I thought I'd just stick a couple of old poems up here for your entertainment. Both were written quite a few years ago in my 'angry years' and I was probably stoned too - especially when I wrote Requiem. That one was an experiment - I was trying to bypass my conscious mind and certainly my internal censor.


REQUIEM

beauty...God in me...tree roots...attractors...unity in the light...ignorance is evil
listen to your heart...in my soul...what can we know?

trances...smoke rising...memories of home...you are me...God in you
give me shelter...boys on the beach and unicorns...I dream of control
Daddy's footsteps...drums of chaos...nirvana...in me I am nothing...oh joy
tide smashing through my skull...pain of longing...hunger for peace...drug of a species
full circle...I smoke the idol...techno...shamen...dolphin moon...does the clock slow?
cities of light...sunset transcend...stand in your light...will you be my friend?
judgement on my head...part of me...flee the flame...and fall
like going to sleep...orgasm...dying inside...will you catch me?

greyheart and vertigo...sanctify my soul...astronaut...Sun God
I'm going home...purity...worship chaos...this is power...raise the fountain...Satan
soul stealer...we are Legion...Hitler...but only human...enlightenment...addiction
holy disease...burning heart...you are my friend...ecstasy...impalement...tranquility
spread the word...intolerance...many ways to another reality...false gods
touch my eyes...narcotic...tangential...take me home...lost in neurons...child
this is my life...shadows and baptism...catharsis...in you in me
we are one...thermonuclear...fundamental...worship his flesh...insecurity...domination
follow the piper... lost millions...tides...politics...ecology...mend the shattered heart
clear sight...harmony...we have no fate...nobility...acceptance
calm troubled waters...evolution...heaven on earth...do you know the way?

hold the terror...universe is an illusion...truth...apocalypse...chinese whispers
angels in my heart...are we alone?...only one comfort...bitter knowledge
long road home...there will be an end...beautiful old age...take the hand
decay and rebirth...infinity...no comprehension...language barrier
tragedy...ghost...damnation...darkness...desolation... talk to me
no words for what I mean...need of womb...sleep in love...love you
accept identity...divinity...know your name...I wander alone...emptiness
fill me with creation...hand in hand on heaven's edge?

utopia to unity...sacrifice who I am...memories is all we are...blessed are the blind
humble beasts...instinct...fulfillment...open my mind to the agony
hold me in your arms...black sun...this loneliness is killing me
I am inside...transformation...guardians...another story?

GODHEAD

big man with the words, we all dance to your pipe
and he said
"put your faith in me, I'll take you
where the angels fear to tread
spirals of darkness, walk through space
hold on tight if you believe
it's a long way down kid"

"it's a jungle out there, I'll give you somewhere to dream in the sun
techno ecology, this is the rock of ages
come out of your temples - there's a universe in the shadows
come and play with the screaming messiah"
and he said
"I'll take you to heaven, but first you must dance
on the point of a needle
this world is dark and angel's wings are thermonuclear dreams
I am the piper
this is the tune of shattered souls"

"hold my hand I'll take you home"
but he said
"now you must see
the neon lights and rivers of blood
open your mind and grit your teeth
I will cure your sickness
I am the bitter pill"

and he said
"remember who you are - who you were
it's all you'll ever have
kid I'm telling you"