The dark night of dissolution has come But we’ve already lived through it many times All the world is a frenzy But this is just our routine by now We no longer fear the chaos Of confusion and blame and vindication We would almost laugh Were it not so destructive and world-ending At this point, it just seems foolish To indulge into the drama As if it were somehow special And not just another apocalypse On another day of the week One of perhaps two or three planned for today

The Phoenix loves the break of day It loves the light, the promise gay The morning dew that lightly dances While rays perform their golden glance Embracing all that come what may A morning brief that gently stays In promises, joyfully played Whispers: ready to take a chance The Phoenix loves the break of day With warm March and freezing May Conflicting hopes on full display Through midday and night's romance Rising beyond every chance The Phoenix loves the break of day

Tree branches crack the sky into new infinities And the Sun will burn for another 5 billion years Take the high road once again Live in the light amongst the cosmos’ splendour You were born for more than the material world Throw it away! Cling not to these physical things Your youthful skin will wrinkle and wither with years You won’t have a cent to your name in the next life Even knowledge will fail you upon your death Your sins and virtues will speak for you And you’ll look at this time, gone from your grasp, with wonder How could you have taken this for granted? These opportunities The simple bliss of creation To love and be loved is surely enough But fail not to act while you can You can have anything you desire With consistency and sacrifice

Fog hovers over dark water Caressing the undisturbed silence. Staring, penetrating past the whisps of white Into the blackness I can see the depths to the bottom Not an ounce of sediment stirs. The pond is rich in stillness Such that no fickle inkling of thought Could levy itself against this completeness.

"Colored gray" When moondimmed nights Swing to sunpale days When aimless staring Turns to inside gaze When clouds drift by And the hands of time Turn wheels relentlessly Of what once was mine When shattered dreams Mirror in their eyes Is when I learn to dance Through their darkest lies For the sun is out Glistening the way Of deserted gems On this darkblue day So I lift my feet Float through colored gray Catch those drops of sun Through the rays of rain A Nightingale that sings "All that come what may" And the moonlit night Sighs... "You'll arrive someday."