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Long nights

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Stripped down to flesh and bone
  Caught in the maelstrom
    Fighting every fiber of fight or flight
      Painted red, muscles alive with agony
     Shadow at my back, knife in hand
    Waist deep wading through the mud
   Wayward son defends and ends another one
  One worked ways maliciously mischievous,
 Night and day and day and night,
Negligence distracts at a distance,
Sirens call envelops all,
Turning my pain to maddening strains
  A song, a song, all that remains,
Long nights dancing in blood
 Long nights dancing neath the moon
Long night hunting with the wolf pack
  Long night hot on hell's heels
Zenas mystifies the mountains
  Vibrant light bursts bright blue through bellows, hot and hungry is the fire
  Feed it the impure, feed it the liar,
Secretly seduce the truth from sultry lips
   Gaze grips her buxom hips,
Words whip flaying skin from bone
  A song a song
     Unknown
Long night stretching to eternity
    Long night permeate the free
Long night linger highway side
  Long night grip me,
Take me along for the ride
    Hide the pain under a bandage of guilt
Let time stitch it shut,
   The scar, a memory, nothing more or less
This time, this time, there is no act two
   This time
     This time
        See it through
          Close your eyes
            Let it enfold you
           It told you
          It told you
         Sweet dreams dangerous dreamer
        Welcome to my world
       Sweet dreams lonesome wanderer
      Vagabonds get tossed away
     The tornadoes of time twist the words in my mind
     Tearing me away from my time
    Long night  
      Long night
        Sublime
          Long night
        Alright
Here you go agin like we're best friends
  Tell me what I think so I don't have to
 Take away my hands before I understand
The power builds hour by hour
Slowly, surely the blood falls
   Grains of sand pulled by gravity's hand,
Down into the spiral, down into the dark
  Down where blood is food and any word a spark
    Shining midst stacks of hay, waiting for the day
   Spark,
      Catch,
        Flame,
       Burn
      Turn
     Let it return
    Define the paths before you send it
   Smoke signals to the sky
   Retorts like thunder shake the ground,
  The beast wakes up, lifting shard of souls once alive
    Devour to survive
Long nights, confine my mind to five by five
  Restrain my light to keep me alive,
Long night tear my soul in two,
   Put me back together
           I love you
Mirror mirror on the wall
   Show me nothing at all
     Show me hollow holes where eyes once were
   Show me tendrils rising from the skin
Show me beauty
    Show me sin
       Show me angels dangling from the chandeliers
      Show me, because my ears won't hear
Your cries as I goad you to your demise,
   Slowly, surely, but by bit,
      Slowly, surely, move with it,
A shadows shadow, darker than the darkest night,
   My cloak,
      My dagger,
        My fight,
       Fear steers clear so I can hear
      Emotion vanished to the ocean as a sea of calm rushed over me
   For once
     For now
       I can see
Long night hunting bears
     Ravenously aware
Long nights blind yet so perceptively insightful,
  Long nights drifting in the void, insightful.



Kill the pain that still remains,
Transmute it into a beautiful stain,
Plain as day for the eye to see,
As complex as you or me.










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