All veins bleed red, All hateful hands cause pain, The terror does not end with the death, It continues with the strife and division, Yamada no sohodo, I’m hung out to dry, The storm leaves me hanging over flooded fields, Closing my eyes is the only way to block out the depravity, Can …
From you I set sail, You send me out, Tossed by waves, For you I yearn, And when my voyage ends, To you I will return,
Kings march on repeat through our dreams, Parading past, our proud patriarchs salute, Our eyes to the sky we see the schooners roll across the seas, Every dawn our hope remains, To sail with our fathers in their legendary longboats, And to trail behind the royal train, We yearn to achieve even a …
Perhaps I was wrong, To look for a signal in the smoke, That rose into the gray evening sky, From Venus’ lofty hilltop, Signal fires often burn a sign, But this hazy blaze kindles no import, Are we to burn our signal fires on our hills, Without a story to signal? Tell me not that …
Homes ablaze illuminate the night, The cries of shell-shocked humanity, Pierce the silent countryside, Driven insane by the burning calamity, We ran too fast and thought too slow, We will never limit what we know, Mankind’s grotesque intelligence outpaces, The capacity to end the quarrels, Men become monsters at university, Trained in mind …
There was a rose in a graveyard, Life among the dead, And to the hapless gray day, It brings a spark of red, No one e’er complained of its presence, It was a welcome guest, Ne’er evicted or driven out, Its petals were blessed, Hope among tombs, Remember that death is not the …
Seasons blow, Like leaves in the wind, I miss them as I greet them, Wave farewell as I welcome them in, Time is the guest you lay the table for, Watching at the glass, The one who stays too long, The one that’s gone too fast, August boasts its pleasures, But don’t forget …
