Wayfarer

[Lyrics II / Song VI]

Lyrics for a song to be written by Joel Thomas Martin.

To step into a dream
Is no simple thing
To live a dream, so much harder

The dreams I have dreamt
And all I have spent
To bring me closer to forever

But the closer I have got
The more I have lost
Getting further along the way
Became a burden of my own making

[Chorus:]
I have come and I have gone
To places known only in old men's songs
But I am a man who lost out to the years
Returning to himself only after so very long

And what has it been for?
When now I know no more
Even after everything I have seen

Still searching for a home
Still walking my own road
Even after everywhere I have been

Tomorrow will be like yesterday
Another destination I'll mislay
There is no end to my journey
I'll never find what I'm looking for

[Chorus:]
I have come and I have gone
To places known only in old men's songs
But I am a man who lost out to the years
Returning to himself only after so very long

What has it been for
After everything?

M.M. — Aprilis–Maius, Iulius–Augustus

"At the dawn of day"

[Experimental II]

Largely written in the dead hours of the morning in the weakening grip of inebriation.
Fragments from a mind lost of itself.
—

For Annie

At the dawn of day, and of man,
at the breaking of the sky,
a dreamtime blue had begun its shattering.

The punctuation of man-light
that lit the way
punctured true-light.

Yet despite this, beyond the light
and the shadowed trees
the darkness and the silence were still there,
watching me.
 
Man does not know the silence that is awake when he sleeps.

And in the end
it would be the fire behind the sky that would rise

—man would not rise.

M.M. — Augustus MMXII

Passenger Seat

[Lyrics I / Song V]

Lyrics for a song written by Kristen Koller.

[Chorus:]
On this darkened road it's only you and me
And I still fail to see
Just where we go

I look outside to see ourselves stuck in time
And you just drive on by
What we were

Along the way we lost
Our words even though we thought
We would never fall apart

I've sat and played my part
But now I realise that
You've driven right from the start

So finally it comes to me that I must confess
That I have felt like this
For so long

Were I to hit the brakes and turn away
Just what would you say
To me?

Though I know that you
Would simply drive right through
Every stop we've come to

But maybe I'm the fool who
Never saw through you
Who never knew what to do

[Chorus:]
On this darkened road it's only you and me
And I still fail to see
Just where we go

I look outside to see ourselves stuck in time
And you just drive on by
What we were

[Chorus:]
On this darkened road it's only you and me
And I still fail to see
Just where we go

I look outside to see ourselves stuck in time
And you just drive on by
What we were

M.M. — Iulius MMXII

"Ode to Night" to be published by Forward Press

"Ode to Night" has been chosen for publication in the anthology Poetry Rivals' Collection 2012 - Captured Moments. Its inclusion puts it in contention for selection for the Poetry Rivals poetry slam competition later next year.

The collection is due out in October.

This piece has already been published by The Poetry Box when it won first prize in The Poetry Box International Horror & Dark Poetry Silver Cup Trophy Competition 2012.