Anymore

Violins

And out from under

Instruments

Of droning thunder

While I wonder

Piling blunders

Windows vacant

Hungry hollows

Vanished or vanquished

Banished and sanguine

Outward I'm wasting

Inward still waiting

I came out into the miasma of that great city

Seeing the remnants blocking roadways

A million mouths left wanting

Cut off and left for dead

The ruddy sky alive with ash

A smoke that lingers here forever

Walking circles down lonely paths

Wishing I could find you here

Overturning rubble

Pulling on rusty roots

With wires up above me

Messages riding currents

I couldn't breathe if you told me to

But you're quiet just the same

Withdrawn and maybe lost

A name, a soul, a face

The fire's going out now

Barren Earth left scorched

Still crowded by these voices

Plaintive memories returned

These nerves like cables frayed

Heartstrings barely remembering

What to make of a melody

What it might mean to be played

Let this be a revelation

Of where I laid my head

A tide of ghosts washed over me

Their hands crowding my skin

Let resistance be futility

I cannot follow any deeper

Footprints fade with time

Windswept I lose the path

Chords struck

Tolls are taken

Slumber empty

No more dreams

While I wander

Seeds in tow

Ferried water

Tears that flow

I came back to that old garden

I bent back the chains of that old fence

I heard the river there still flowing

I ran to where the sun might set

And set my mask here by the wayside

And sat myself down by the bank

And watched the water take my failures

And felt the fire take my breath

I Don't Even Have A Name Anymore

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