VEILS OF MISERY

Ah they have a little trouble walking…
The carpets moving, the aisle is talking
Something that was buried and dead
Has slowly begun raising its head
The people who were all dormant
Are realizing they’ve been ignorant
The bodies that lay under their feet
Have started lifting their heads
We have been to you just reptiles
But soon we’ll creep into your beds
These people will fry you alive, tyrant,
When they see their blood
And how to it you shrugged!
When they see their veils of misery
And realize that they were drugged
These people are not all that ignorant
These people are duped, they’re innocent

DARK ALLEYS

Dazzling lights, the display of wealth…
Here we drink to each other’s health.
The music plays and laughter echoes;
The dance is on… Be on your toes!
When it all stops, all falls silent;
We step back. We all retire…
We walk out of the joyful tent.
We disperse from the bonfire.
Some leave in their great chariots,
Some with the ladies from the dance;
Some go with other lords or dames
Been offered a ride, just by chance.
And finally I too look around
Making up my mind to leave…
A truth that is so simple and stark:
I have to walk out into the dark…
I have to enter that same alley…
Where there’s no one with me.

BURNS...

It’s one thing that does not go.
It stays there and raises concerns…
It burns!

They branded us with metal and fire.
They all have marked us taking turns…
It burns!

Your face has never left my eyes.
It disappears and again it returns…
It burns!

My heart is just way too hostile.
It casts to fire whatever it learns…
It burns!

CRYING FOR THE LIGHT

Here I am crying for it to end
Now at its darkest is the night
Here I sit in the darkness and
Just behold your constant light