The rise and fall I so detest, the flutter and the fall
Sometimes to loft above all things
and other times to stall
*
Men weren't made to dwell above
but some pine for the plight
Sometimes they flutter thereof
and then retreat in fright
*
Some are elected to dwell high
And others think they can
And spend lives pining for the sky
And never learn its span
*
Sometime I think I'm one of them
Sometimes I rather not
So bright the vision of the Realm
So painful is the flight
veritas
In the winter's frozen grasp
Lies the charm of frozen grace
Which the heart tells not the mind
Which the mind cannot embrace
*
Howling winds relate the woes
Promise end to all desire
Freezing ice, from head to toes
Reast is Peace and Death's a liar
*
Saddened corpses, shadows vague
Flitter by and vaguely fade
*
It will end and Spring will come
End the freeze, give lie to sorrow
In the promise of tommorow
And the bustle and the hum
*
Share joy and dance and turn
For the turn and for returning
For the soul that has revived
And the spirit that is burning
*
veritas
Inexorably Fall has come, gray suffocation in its wake
It desolated verdant fields and silenced chirping by the lake
It pressed out green and made it run in washed out streaks along the roads
In rivulets of choked up stone
So silent, empty, drab and grey
thinned vegetation on the way
*
The fall sits on the chest of ground
and makes it cough its squeky sound
It suffocates and holds its breath
So brown spreads along the earth
And every spirit that once flowed
No longer soars but falls to earth
*
So sad, so empty, such despair
Will green forever be laid bare?
WIll desolation rule forever?
Where is the hope of better day?
How can one hope, how can one trust?
Amidst the grayness, in the dust?
*
The world has seasons, so do souls
Before they thrived and now they froze
The world will wake up and they will
Draw up its warmth and shake the chill
Such souls are precious for they know
The desolation of the Fall
When Hope and Fear mix, they explosively mix
They contend and afflict and do not dwell in peace
Each one struggles to gain, to rise over, persist
There's hissing and smoke, there is no peace in this
*
Wrestle, struggle and bind, overpower, survive
Rising waters strike froth against bulwarks of rock
Gather power and noise against quiet divide
Between water and land. They impact, they arrive
*
Then the hope calls its troops and it's boulders expand
Tumbling forward, they heave and sometimes turn Fear back
Crushing waves of despair on the reeds and the sands
*
And sometimes it does not and the Fear then invades
And it shatters the hope and submerges the glades
Oh, the bulwarks of Hope, please fight on, please withstand
by veritas
Beyond the sky there is a world
I feel but canot see
Beyond appearance and disguise
Beneath the shining sea
*
So many things deflect my gaze
Grace, beauty, want and need
So many scenes, so many ways
Cajole, excite and plead
*
Between dark alleys and bright fields
And steps that fall and rise
There are important books to read
of wonders and surprise
*
But still, beyond the screen there is
Some other, other Thing
That I can't know but can perceive
The Daughter of the King
based on Zohar Mishpatim
There is withdrawal made of fear
It is accessible and clear
It seems so far but is so near
Easy to ride and light to steer
*
There is repentance wrought of Love
It sounds easy but is tough
It never, never has enough
Of things both beatiful and rough
*
Easy to mount but hard to steer
So full of longing, yet austere
And once you launch, you never know
Wherever such love makes you go.
*veritas
I thought you angels, you were men,
Possessed by faults that men possess,
Like me. Same problems, same regrets
I longed for more but there was less
Trust not in humans says the Lord
Unless that's all you can afford.
*
They all meant well, they really tried,
They gave so much, they couldn't more,
They were upholding their right,
Nay,,, obligation, duty, law
But.. self-delusion drove them forth
In righteous anger, zeal and froth
*
Integrity is hard to find,
Few are the men who know themselves,
Rule their hearts, bind their mind,
And gaze beyond their narrow cell.
If you encounter such a man,
Give'm all the Honor that you can.
*veritas
I walked so many darkened paths, that I have learned to fear
So many shadows flashed by me along the lonely streets
Is there a road I cannot find?
Is there a hill I wouldn't climb?
*
I learned to fear, I studied hope
Pursued both with a glee
And played the instruments of Life
In frightful Harmony
*
We face temptations
And regrets,
We grasp at chances,
We tempt Fate
*
Both, dear reader, Life and Death
Are common destiny of Man
The road is long and does not end
Till you fall off it or ascend.
