as if it ever did

as if it ever did

I walk a path never trod

between mountains and the sea

glory hallelujah is not a part of me

every witness you may ask

will tell you all the same

not that it makes a difference

I never knew his name

his name to me is only myth

myth and nothing more

as light comes down and up in life

myth is just a whore

a whore that never charges

until you believe in it

once you do you're in it

a funky world of shit

shit that binds and traps you

traps you in its webs

webs you don't feel until you're caught

then, you're good as dead

dead while you're still living

doubt, born upon a slow cold wind

hinged upon a door that opens

once, trap closes no longer giving

giving -- as if it ever did

nothing but give all of what you are,

what you have, and what you have not

while those that ask are hid

hid behind a monstrous scheme

hid behind the vestments

hid behind overwhelming lies

within all the testaments

testaments written as laws laid down

down is where they'll take you

take you on a trip of woe

you'll be encaged inside the zoo

zoo where others come to watch

in their Sunday morning best

a fashion show to see who wears

the best is a just a jest

jest is far from funny

a lark they try to make it

make it seem so real to those

who buy the morning ticket

ticket to no destination

ticket to oblivion

freedom cast among the coals

absolutely no consummation

lovers do it better

lovers do it best

even when their lovemaking

ends at no behest

behest that wanes and waxes

waxing and they wane

downhill flying arrow

trumpeting falling train

Orion sits quite lonely

in a winter's starry night

billion stars a-twinkling

around its frosty light

light that harbingers

battle last when all

will be laid bare

truth before the fall

of religion's fault for sharing

its darkness on us all.

vcp

25 January 2010