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Past The Walls Of Memory

from Past The Walls Of Memory by Ueda Kurou

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Past the Walls of Memory

Sand is scouring my roots again
A vessel full of life
Trailing on his mother’s heels
Passes by, and the sinking time
See’s her efforts fade behind
The walls of memory

Even my first clamorings at love
Are going the same way
Once warm treasures
Now, beginning to surrender
To this brutal moment
Where there’s only pain

I’m drifting out and in
Past and future both unclear
I’m afraid of what I’ll see
But the hospital bed
Can’t be so different from
The fluorescent lamp and screen
That always sit in front of me

To let my thoughts all leak
Sterile blankets and white sheets
Quiet muttering TV
Barely heard or seen
Is it torture is it sweet?
An inevitable snare? Is there escape?
Can I break free?
And If the trap is already sprung,
How can I shed
The deep thoughtless regrets to save
Some small dignity?

I was trying to picture a better place
In my mind
Somewhere it’s taking shape
But I can’t recall the way
And each choice I make sees
Land erode
More than sleep there is a cruel fatigue
Taking hold of me
I can’t bring myself to hope again
When everything I reach for is consumed
In a haze
Like every old friend
Inevitably drifts away

The fox in the rope twisted and changed
Watched from afar asphyxiate
Ahhh what is this that churns in my veins?
Maddening hunger
Lilly white petals between red teeth
Embraced by hooks shattered in between
Aren’t you just a chemical?
Is there no kinder dream?

Unused but not forgotten
Just beyond the streetlights
An ancient shrine holds
Two carved wood foxes
That watch with sightless wooden eyes
The fleeting wisps of smoke
Rise!
From black burning lotus
As raindrops trickle past the leaves
Lose themselves in dirt and earth
In shapeless running streams
Rise!
Final plumes through sapphire canopy
Into the dark and empty
Eons
Beyond the sky
Where glints of light,
Newborn stars, spring to life and die
Quick as sparks from a flint
Ignite from unbroken streams
In the unstained void
Ephemeral eternity

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from Past The Walls Of Memory, released July 9, 2017

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