WITH, FOR & AGAINST (2005)

During these times we are no longer driven by love

Love does not answer it all as it once has done

Fading of insecurities is now a green man's job

I remember days of thunder and heaven's may days

All one could muster was the word love

Martyrs, knights, people of villages have risen

Centuries of living amongst the fear of that might

Cure which exists in our hearts to this very day

Do not surpass the halt of firearms, the icy edge of a sharp sword

I cling to the notion of a swordsman in due time raising his hand to the crowd

I plea I may I too forsake the play of force and cringe underneath my bareness

For it to die, dawn of early hours before the blood I bleed will crawl through stones of the mountains tails

Vampire like has the love we share become

Only chanced thereafter dusk is its formal King now

Do I claim to love unconditionally and prow at the same time?

Devil in me says that is the only way for you and me to survive

For the sons of our sons to become the warriors of heaven and earth

Gardened by the dawn of our future times

I too worry of love

I too shed my skin every night desiring my flesh to be reborn

Quilted to another, not a man, not a woman not another soul of its kind

By love the river of our dreams which floats our heads which the soaring lava has sliced

With love we sit and pray and grow our tortures to a back burner

So we dare to utter in shadows of ourselves

For love we no longer live or die yet its magic is burnt into the musculature

Attached to our bones to the life in the walk and to the pleasant smiles we radiate

After love the blood will turn blue and start smoking to its exhale

For decades of fires and the fallings of crowns

Where did we shove love if not in our hearts?

With love for love against love after love

May you know it well enough and shake your insides

With love.

For Victor on 9.6.05