Library: The Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

Eyewitness ----- Still waiting for my saviour Storms tear me limb from limb My fingers feel like seaweed I'm so far out I'm too far in. I am a lonely man My solitude is true My eyes are borne stark witness And now my nights are numbered too I've seen the smiles on dead hands; The stars shine But they're not for me. I prophesy disaster And then I count the cost I shine but shining, dying I know that I am almost lost I've been a witness and the seal of death Lingers in the molten wax That is my head To see the skeletons of sailing ships fall sinking low You may get to wonder if the point of all these ancient fears Is solemnly directed straight at you. No time now for competition A time - for that's long past The walls are thin as tissue And if I talk I'll crack.. So I'll only think on how it might've been Locked in silent monologue In silent screams... S.H.M. ----- 'UNREAL, UNREAL!' ghost helmsmen scream falling through the sky; Not breaking through my seagull shrieks - no breaks until I die Spectres scratch on window slits Hollowed faces and mindless grins Their sole intent of destroying what they've lost. I crawl the wall till steepness ends in the vertical fall; My pail has sailed into the sea - no joking hopes of dawn White bone shine in the iron jaw mask Lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark And parallel my isolated Tower No paraffin for the flame.. No harbour left to gain.. PRESENCE OF THE NIGHT ----- Would you catch the final words of mine? Would you catch my words? I know that there's no time I know that there's no rime I don't want to wait I am so afraid Why can't I let me Just be myself -I am completely alone. I don't want to wait I am so afraid Why can't I let me free -I die very slowly alone. LAST STAND ----- The maelstrom of my memory Is a vampire and it feeds on me Now staggering madly over the brink I fall. Lighthouses might house the key But can I reach the door? I want to walk on the sea So that I may better find ashore But how can I ever keep my feet dry? I scan the horizon; I must keep my eyes on All parts of me.. Looking back on the years It seems that I have lost my way Like a dog in the night I've run to a manger Now I am the stranger I stay in.. All of the grief I have seen Leaves me chasing solitary peace But I hold experience in my head; I'm too close to the light; I don't think I see right For I blind me.. SINELINE ----- Where is the god that guides my hand? How can hands of others reach me? How will I find a way to grow? Who is going to teach me? I am you You are we We can't see Any way out of here.. Chance has lost my Guinevere.. The sea will drag me deep One more haggard drowned man!

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Library: The Plague of Lighthouse Keepers