Dark Shadows Deep
Haunting my life
I’d try to fall asleep
If it weren’t for the night
Now every rustle is a danger
And every shadow wants me dead
Every silence I grow weaker
Chasing these monsters in my head
Throw my Heart on the floor
Really, I can take no more!
Leave it bleeding in the Dust
Thoughts consumed by Love and Lust
The Monument you built for me
On Stolen Time and Wicked Deeds
No one knows what lies in store
For those who Wilt and those who Tore
A serenade of Broken Trust
Cutting through Blue Windswept Gusts
Quiet are Forces that Be
That crawl along the Shattered Sea
This Long Lost Dream I never had
This One Last Memory that drove me MAD!
A flash of light
Across the scales and eyes
Bats away the darkness
Of demise
It saves the soul
And heals the wounds of time
Love conquering the shadow
Spread over like an ocean
But not cold as water is
Rather warm and welcoming…
Something one must earn
Yet equally give
The night was a time for peace,
A time for healing.
A time for sleep.
Humming the bars of a song
The Gate-walkers step
Through the portal
Into the realm of war and peace.
Where sits the gathering gloom
Lifts the fading fog.
This was what eternal meant
And shall always mean.
Nobody sees what I want them to see,
When I am hidden behind my mask
The ones of true soul see a cold, heartless rock,
While the other rocks see a pathetic outcast
In both groups I am a freak,
When I am hidden behind my mask
I am a bright sunflower in the foreboding grotto,
Yet I am a black sheep among the beautiful lambs
What do others think of me,
When I am hidden behind my mask? I’ll tell you
Those with which I share the darkness
Feel as if I insult their dominion
By welcoming in the light
And those with which I bask in the light
Feel as if I plague their kingdom with scum
By dragging in the darkness
Where do I belong,
When I am hidden behind my mask?
Those who care not what others think,
Who reside in the dark,
Or those who are constantly fighting amongst each other,
Yet are discretely envied by the former?
Perhaps I belong in solitude,
To wallow in the joy that I take
In both my soul, and the mask that conceals it
I thrive on both; my life would end,
Were either to be changed so that the soul would match the mask
But solitude kills me more than my failed attempts to fit in,
When I am behind my mask
I cannot live with it, nor can I live without it
This is the curse of my wonderful, yet reviled,
My magnificent, yet detestable,
My lovable yet despicable mask
Congrats to one of our own members BILL HASH, who recently filmed, produced and directed the music video PHANTOM OF MY HEART.
Nov. 11th Margo will be filming a 10-15 min short film ” THE PRICE OF AN EGG SANDWICH at the Mains Street Cafe in Mays Landing, N.J. This is a cause film, and it’s about a young man and a older man discussing the cost of a simple egg sandwich, and the financial crisis that is going on in the world today has a bit of humor as well.
Have you ever experienced the diagnosis of cancer? It creates a pain; a fear; an anger that erodes the fabric of your being. Those words, “you have cancer” creates the illusion of a future that never was. The expression of sadness in the eyes strips the vitality of youth. Have you ever experienced the diagnosis of cancer? Oh, how I long for yesterday! Why us? Where do we turn? To whom do we turn? We look towards the hills and meditate on the Word of God. It is only He who gives us hope and strength.
James D. Harris, Jr.