your memories run deep, a thousand lifetimes
your buried burns still sparkle in my lines
and the Pictures you've forgotten through the centuries
are the Visions I have lost inside my mind
there are places that you've been, tho' you were different
you have travelled Guilt and sat within the Fires
where you drank in flame and bathed yourself in brightness
where you played in Fields that founded in their briars
you've consumed yourself around a million moments
where lost faces come and go like Mysteries
I have stood on like a helpless Resurrection
of the seconds that we wrapped around the breeze
but then you left and went off to the Wastelands
you left, I cried and prayed for your return
and the years flashed on without a changing Glory
while the Mirrors of my mind they slowly burned
you were going somewhere, a solitary Soldier
you were fighting for a place where you could hide
and the Arms you softly hung around my shoulders
sought out some way to venture near my side
I waited in vein Hope of flickered Futures
you wandered, blazed, inside your endless Trail
and the Cape that I had thrown around your shoulders
dissolve all Fear of murderous betrail
I can see you by the seaside in a Castle
where you raised your Sword and brought it down with Force
I can see you smile with empty satisfaction
as you watch the River slowly change its course
but then you were done with moving like a Slayer
you had had your fill of scourging as a Knight
but there didn't seem a way to find the Road back
to a Kingdom where there is no Dark or Light
and so trapped inside your Father's tarnished Armour
you walked the ancient Roads where Silence rained
and you weathered countless storms only to wonder
as to what you might have lost or may have gained
I could feel it when they took you like a Gargoyle
when they bound you to that madly Raging Stake
I can see the Witches gathering the faggots
from the Waters deep beneath the icy lake
and the gathered sticks were fashioned into bundles
and laid all around your body, racked in Peace
then they started hurling violent accusations
as you sat in silent wait for your Release
then they lit their swaying Torches in the darkness
and the Flames sang out about your weary ears
and you felt your body slowly going under
tho' Joy, not Pain, announced your longing tears
and when you were gone the embers lit the Blackness
and the Deed was way above their petty Screams
so you clawed your way into another Kingdom
and grew closer to your sorry, waning Dreams
yes, you looked down from above, your saddened ashes
and you saw them cought upon the tortured Dust
and the Winds howled like a Blow into the Vortex
and reminded you of what you used to trust
I can see you in the Meadows with your Children
you are swaying in their laughter and their light
you are drinking in the silent Apparitions
that remind you there can be no wrong or right
and you're learning what it means to feel the Stillness
preparing for the Place that you will Dance
where the rhapsodies and moon beams light the shadows
in the world where nothing ever comes by chance
you are coming to the Home of no resistance
where you'll understand it all but still know less
you will feel the falling forces of existance
until you fin'lly come unto your Rest
and yet still you struggled hard to find an Inroad
tho' the Doors were hidden in the tattered Mist
and the beauty of your Solitude seemed endless
as the smoke- screen scars of where we used to Kiss
so you summoned all the Strengh you could remember
and you reseigned yourself to walk the world alone
waiting for the quirks of Fate that would relieve you
for Epistles that would Call you to your Home
and the Centuries passed slowly through the Hourglass
you were many things to Men and Women, lost
but you played out all your Roles with gentle patience
and you didn't stop to count the Wearied cost
and so now the years are gone, your Penance paid for
you are young again and I am at your side
and we're gathering the Thorns that brushed our Freedom
and we use the Spear like some inspired Guide
we have taken up the challenge from the Danger
and you're looking fine despite the Agonies
but it's been so very long between our Instants
so we musn't waste our Time with pleasantries
we must see our recognition with a Shiver
we must wear it like a Charm around our necks
we must knot our Amulets against a Sunrise
and go forth like King and Queen into the Decks
We'll recall the Tune we sang into our conscience
we'll remember that the silent words have changed
and the Bleeding lives alone were surely worth it
for we both know that our meeting was arranged
so take heed of restless Winds and battered rumours
take heed of Brothers, Sisters sought in Pain
and the Voices in the Breeze will e'er remind you
of the Times that pass before we Meet again
..................................(15/1/1985)
