BLOODSHOT


Enclosure holds me from within
Struggling in the slipstream
Of my losses and my sorrow
Tears already drained
Nothing left to cry for
It's all been done before

Hands growing numb
All over and inside
Breeze moves shamelessly
Blocking all the pitiful cries
Of those who've lost it all

My feet can't touch the ground
Nobody's darkness grows naturally
The blood of a thousand hopefuls
Leaks into the morning sky
Breathing light for more hours
Survival looms above below

Certainty is neutral
There is no time
There is no life
For evening stars to see the day
Is hard if snakes of sunlight
Darken slivers on the crossroad

Decision from a dice of three
If number 8 comes up
The right decision lives
It's time for some responsibility
Fire on the hill

Sunset dawns the dusk
Ashes fall from high
The horizon gets too close
Never far enough away
Needing space amongst the flames
The cracked earth opens up to swallow
My life in screams resisting

Voice of metal knife
Sharp to catch me in a daze
Slicing for a chance to change
My days to one long night
Good night

Blackened earth around my eyes
A light glows in the distance
For someone that light is close
I want to be there
Yet they want to run away
From life there is no path to choose

Wail of the shore intimidates
Will it too drown from too much rest
The spirits of the living dead
Are enticing all the dying lives
To choose between eternity
Or a shameful destiny

Throw away the water
Jump slowly walk into the fire
Hear your body return to ashes
Us to them and what was gone
Fright in understanding
Nobody cares to realise
Slip my abrasiveness away
Strident trident
Double loser sharing all the wrong moves
Decide one way or the other
The world is splitting
Bloodshot
Good shot

Fire again and again and again
Hit the target until something bleeds
The sky bleeds bloodshot memories
Into this bloodshot world


29/4/97