The Creation Tale
Locked together in tight embrace,
They were the darkness, the infinite space.
The primordial parents were intertwined
Between them, their children, in the blackness, confined.
Clustered and cramped they were wedged for an age
Growing bitter, resentful, they hated their cage.
Together they plotted for this union to cease
“We must pull them apart, we must make them release!”
So they each of them pushed and they each of them pried
But the parents pulled tighter, their children denied.
The first born, the fierce, he refused defeat
He laid on his back and pushed with his feet.
The oldest, the angriest, cursed out of spite
“Enough of this darkness! Let there be light!”
And the lovers, as one, from the beginning, the start
By their children’s own doing they were pulled apart.
The father, he grieved and so did his wife
As light burst forth and out of darkness came life.
He lamented his loss for there would be no other
She fell with her children and became the Earth Mother.
The children became gods of the Oceans and Seas
Of Fire, of War, of Forests and Trees.
But the Father, his dominion, Lord of Stars and Skies
Still mourns his love with the rain from his cries.
And Earth Mother, she struggles, and makes the land quake
She longs for her love to sooth her heartbreak.
Still they call for each other, but to no avail
And that is the beginning, the creation tale.
Swallowing Circles (Schizophrenia)
Endless nightmare, nightmare, nightmare
Eyelids pried open, open, open
crouching, crouching in corner
shaking, I'm dead, dead, dead.
Can't shut my brain off, off, off
thoughts growing tendrils
looping, looping onto reflections.
Ivy, Ivy, tangling like ivy
can't see the tree, tree, tree
hovering fog, fog, fog.
Phones shriek, shriek, shriek
painful hurting pitches
skull breaks apart, apart
thought, thought octopuses.
Wading in boots, boots, boots
pools, pools of molasses
insides falling out, out, out.
Slashed my feet, feet, feet
pour, pour out despair
people cowering, cowering
cameras watching on corners.
Freezing cold, cold, cold
skin boiling, boiling inside
inferno of flames, flames.
TV flickers, flickers, flickers
confusing noises pounding
paranoia falls, falls, falls
off shelves of my brain, brain.
Can't translate my world, world, world
symbols and echoes, echoes
euphoria waves, waves, waves
at sunken anxiety, anxiety.
My third eye, eye, eye
won't leave me alone, alone
crushed feelings of conspiracy
paints swirling ideas, ideas
in pieces of vision, vision, vision.
Distorted perceptions, perceptions, perceptions
races of fragmentation, fragmentation
defiled faces with fangs, fangs, fangs.
Swallowed, running, running, running
concentric circles, circles
drowning in raging, raging
waters of my mind, mind, mind.
