Fissure

Fissure

Here at the precipice
The pit seems bottomless
Bound for the abyss
Down the faceless cliff
So close to infinite
I chose to finish it
Sigh thunderous
This silence insists
I listened amiss
There's a way out of this
An exit exists
It is through the cracks
It is over the edge
It is off the tracks
Where we dread to tread
It is at our backs
It is in our heads
It is through
It is over so soon
It was never new
Only getting older

Into the fray again
I'm afraid that this will end
In the lion's den
In a foreign land
There is more at hand
Than I would pretend
There's more than for
The minds of man



Sunken

I found you rowing down the river styx
Sticks and stones with a heart onyx
Drowned and down to your last lift
Before you left the raft to drift
You said that you'd already lived
And had nothing left to give
Your shift is finished
Nothing is infinite
Nothing's made to last
Your casket has been cast
An iron maiden
To keep your demons from escaping
You will always feel them scraping
They tell you hell is your own making
And you've done well in your forsaking
Now that you are all alone
You cannot atone
Left with all those sticks and stones
Hit with all that you have thrown
You're a home of broken bones
Skin and skeleton
Melting to elements
Ever since the river split
And you along with it