why do we ride
this way through
the universe

(this trip indicates
infinite splendor
of the unseen)

You are all
the eternal return
of your own
love

When you surrender
life gives you
everything that's
yours

We used to think the
machines would free us

Kickstart
chrome
Iron
Oil
Smoke

They gave each other
back the borrowed coins

Waitin' around to become
immortal

Why invest in dying

(eagle wings
shamanistic freedom)

make trumpets
from my bones

remember when we were gods
and angels

ancient machines sputtered, roared,
ripped through paradise.

we left tokens, offerings,
robes, strange fruit and incense
by the back gate

hid oursleves in alien garb
danced to the river with dieties
watched bodies burn
in celebration

Humbled by pyramid meditations
we sat silently by the square lakes
waiting for what
had been
promised

Those nights we tried to
stay in paradise

I surrender them
to the goddess

Whose beauty
is everywhere

surrender to
the infinite
power
(of love)

Trusting that she's always
been there
(never gonna be away)

It only looks
as if things
(have changed)

Sweet power of
evolution

technological dominance
creates new worlds

of fragile gods &
broken promises

Sometimes
(tossed on the waves
crashing on the shores)

Vampiric Goddesses
imbibing his mortality

(sometimes he would hear
the battlecry of
fallen soldiers
storming the walls

catch a glimpse of Hector's
shield flashing in the distance)

almost drowning
almost consumed by monsters
the best of his crew
the best men he ever knew

dead or gone
gone home so long ago

fair Achilles resting with the
gods somewhere

Time crushing his heart
Titans battering him from
all sides

Nothing but the promise
of home

(someday reaching home)

Outside the stream
(inside this matrix of
dreams)

mind-steam
mind-stream

clouds won't stand still
straddling centuries
we crumble

passion of demons
passion of angels

lifetimes
sacrificed
on the edge

wait space
create
(chase gold)

love later
learn later
be here now (sometime later,

We are all
looking for home

some kind of surrender
waits for us all

Of The Enchanted Mountain

beloved dancer
we remained
for one instant
two halves of the seed
with just one covering

(I am hidden inside you)
(you are invisible all around me)

afterburners
outpost
outlier
remnants

pilgrims on the border
of the unknown
lost/lonely &
in love

Souls scouring this
planet for signs
of the divine

Transplanted beings of light
screaming towards heavens
(floating through milleniums)

I will remember your name