Skies

Cough, gasp, and sputter Spinning helplessly down toward the earth A loss of control, the sky swallows whole Spinning down, down Forever falling down, down, down But is it entirely a flightless fall? No deceptive currents, no rise at all? Maybe it’s too naive to not jump ship When deviating so drastically from the initial script Tremble beneath the weight of inevitability And all the casualties therein Cower in the shadow of the ever-present sun Witness eclipsing, eclipsing, eclipsed Is it completely void? Or is the truth in shade? Are all the facts before us a masquerade? Suffering no deceit, no selfish lies We stand in our own crypt and we mobilize Waking up to blazing heat And the stench of rancid meat Don’t have the patience or the time to repeat mistakes Like high, hot hauls, through highway tolls With bigger brothers for hungry trolls Each horn sharpened by eye sockets torn Standing on the graves of the worn Welcome to the place integrity is born Heart in the right place, just missing the mark Feigning exception is a shot in the dark With no remorse and no regret Is anybody listening yet? Tremble beneath the weight of inevitability And all the casualties therein Cower in the shadow of the ever-present sun Witness eclipsing, eclipsing, eclipsed Bask in uncertainty Strange things can happen when faced with adversity Ask and you shall receive Or swing frantic your arms. Fate is nothing but a nervous belief I don’t believe the end is in pavement I don’t believe there’s anything beneath I don’t believe there’s death in the basement No I don’t believe No I don’t believe Embrace the fall, there is no end No ambiguous hypothesis to comprehend No bruised and battered egos in descent’s entire ethos No magnificent creation myth. No wind to pad the story with Only I will never quit, or watch my brothers quit But I’ll lower down a lifeboat if you’re abandoning the ship “True sailing’s dead,” should have been the first thing said Before the writing could be written, before the writing could be read The wreckage was never found But the black box was recovered The message therein profound In our final moments our true names are all discovered So let it fall, fall. Even if it turns out to be futile At least we couldn’t ask for a sky so clear or a day more beautiful They’ll never find the wreckage, transcending all human languages Just a promise and a final message: the descent is all there truly ever is Just a promise and a final message: the descent is all there ever is Just a promise and a, just a promise and a final message: the fall is all there ever is Just a promise and a final message: the descent is all there ever is Just a promise and a, just a promise and a final message: the fall is all there ever is Stumble beneath the radar, big holes in each great city Is all the evidence I need Knowledge often beckons and can lead astray Whisper release me, release me, release Dive into an endless sea No reason to falter no plan supersedes Altering frequencies But we welcome the change. Fate is nothing but a nervous disease Cough, gasp, and sputter Spinning helplessly down toward the earth A loss of control, the sky swallows whole Spinning down, down Forever falling down, down, down