jurisprudent
05-18-2013, 08:09 AM
I wish I could cast this mantle away,
And walk naked from all doubts, pains and regrets,
And glide on clear clean ice
Without the burden of this mantle
Of sorrows and lies
That hangs on my shoulders
And brings me down to the barren earth of my lifetime.
I wish I could cast this heavy mantle away
And walk away into a flaming sunset of clean soul-piercing lights
And simply disappear. Only a tray of ashes behind me, charcoals left astray.
And this mantle will dissolve and absorb into the earth,
Penetrating the barren soil, liquefied into running streams of poison,
Nurturing the roots of a Joshua tree in the end of all ends,
By the final sunset,
By the glaring end of light.
We shall be one then, at last, alas.
And walk naked from all doubts, pains and regrets,
And glide on clear clean ice
Without the burden of this mantle
Of sorrows and lies
That hangs on my shoulders
And brings me down to the barren earth of my lifetime.
I wish I could cast this heavy mantle away
And walk away into a flaming sunset of clean soul-piercing lights
And simply disappear. Only a tray of ashes behind me, charcoals left astray.
And this mantle will dissolve and absorb into the earth,
Penetrating the barren soil, liquefied into running streams of poison,
Nurturing the roots of a Joshua tree in the end of all ends,
By the final sunset,
By the glaring end of light.
We shall be one then, at last, alas.