CANDLELIGHT CEREMONY

death came knocking
last night
said come with me son
if that's alright
but i'm not ready
to go
so much i still need
to know
besides heaven doesn't
want me
hell already let
me go
can you give me
just one more day
to say all i have
to say
let me steal
one more night
to make everything
right
it's not that
i'm afraid
it's not that
i'm ashamed
knew this t...

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DO NOT WEEP
(excerpt from SICK)

do not weep
they are not gone
they are the sunrise
as it breaks the dawn
do not weep
they are not in a grave
they are the motion
in every ocean wave
do not weep
they did not die
they are the bird' s song
and the blue of the sky
do not weep
they did not leave
they are the breeze
that blows through the trees
do not weep
they are not far
they are ...

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Her eyes would glaze over,

a slurring of speech

some hazardous moments

an unnatural breech.

Soon she declined

deprived of sound mind, and who knows

what images lay there behind.

Within some months she was carried off

peremptorily by unseen forces.

In the darkness the answer lay

the divine intervention of counterplay.

Now the daughters have taken over, the hous...

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LANDSCAPE OF TEARS

I sense that you are near me,

close enough to touch, right now.

In my mind.

No one else can see you next to me

but I do. As we are now,

we once were in reality

at some time in our history.

Your spirit never leaves me

and your ghost forever haunts me,

your love is my saviour intertwining

me in your spiders web of hearsay.

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