Sleeping Lessons Again

I guess if you have been writing a blog for a few years it is inevitable that you will repeat yourself. I realize that I have written about this song before, but it just came on my iTunes shuffle and because I have such a visceral connection to it, I had to let loose the valve and let flow some words.



Go without,
Till the need seeps in and forces you to scream out with joy and pain
Unaware which is which you grovel and writhe in the darkness.
You low animal, struggling with the consciousness of an entire universe, hidden within the folds of your intellect. Wasted on your flesh.
Collect your novel petals for the stem watch them wilt and fade, only to grow back again a new.

And glow.
Glow.
Melt and flow. Disappearing self.
Eviscerate your fragile frame.
And spill it out on ragged floor.
A thousand different versions of yourself. Not one that is correct, not one that you would trade.

And if the old gods still offend, tear them to shreds and abandon their false promises and lies.
They got nothing left on which you depend. There is a new light, a new path, a new world beyond their faded stories scribbled in ancient books. Guilt and penance. Sin and redemption, what silly propositions. You are a universe in and of yourself, you need no prophets…
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood.
And off with their heads.

Jump from the hook.
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise. Spit it out. Spit it up. No more. Reframe your views, make your life your own.
No culture, no religion, no baggage. Just you floating within us. We are one and
See, those unrepenting buzzards want your life,
And they got no right.
As sure as you have eyes,
They got no right to make you believe otherwise.

Just put yourself in my new shoes.
And see that I do all I do.
Because the old god still offends.
(Their pudgy hearts and slimy hands)
They got nothing left on which we depend.
So enlist every ounce
Of your bright blood.
And off with their heads.

Jump from the hook.
You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise,
That you despise. Jump from the hook.
Jump from the hook.
Jump from the hook.
Jump from the hook.
Jump
from
the
hook.