"A Void"

 An all consuming shadow and flame

An inscription placed on swollen womb

Through and through I am ordained

I would relieve your golden moon

kneeling in aw of immeasurable pain

Feeling for someone here with whom

Bent beneath its terrible weight 

I might share this undoubted doom

Never neath the startled skies

Dare I speak, it anxiously cries 

Lest I seek to sanctify 

Before a light first caught my eye

And if time bury a luminary illusion

Of what worth is living at all

Please you let an inevitable intrusion

When thirst and hunger to me call

This is what it means to be human

Pillars of salt surrounding Gomorrah 

A memory instilled with vigorous fusion 

Where still your specter doth enthrall

It's a full moon in the skies galore  

For hope is a pleasure I'm loathe to outlast

In their flares I have seen what it bore

The seed of my heart so long since cast

Experience cemented in a metaphor   

The visions of wilder storms surpassed

A place to remain, and nothing more

There came a mysterious void in the vast

Passer

 She slips like a knife 
Like memory after so much time
She passes into me and through me 
Dancing beneath hollow gardens 
Visions of an unmoving shadow
Oh how she used to be

"Light"

What is light 
But a heart full of sin
I burn in the fire 
On this secret night 
Sacrifice is required 
And I beckon you home 
For my need is dire 

You hear me calling
In a time of disaster 
And again I am falling
Deeper and faster 

It hollows my sign
And hardens my heart
It distorts my mind
It rips me apart
It tends to us all 
With both darkness and light
Where the dead are aligned
On fallen wings 

Treacherous and endless 
Together we descend
With strikes of venom
Just waiting for a pull
With the devil's way 
And that of consumption 
My spirit is inlayed 
And love is corruption 

Will you teach me to defeat
The inner coward
And how to entreat
A higher power
Show me a method
To have and to hold 
And when I have relented
Show me how to let go