Across the Night

 

 

 

 

It doesn’t matter where you turn

In this circle the spiral isn’t just around you

It’s the only thing that keeps you going

If it stops

The sun won’t come above your shoulders

Then again you’re blind

And what is the sound of a frowning face

I wonder how you must feel riding through the night

In this new, alien land, waiting for your dreams to come true

I see it all

The uneasy smile spread across your cheeks

That shines through the night

Shoulders tight towards your heart

I see it all

How pathetic and vulnerable you look

I could kill you now

But you won’t die

You won’t die

With that smile

Or those dreams

I’ll let you live long enough to fall asleep

That way they’ll spread in the air of the night

The lights will hits your lids

And the cold air will make you shiver

The fog will protect me

And the car will keep riding through the night

The night in which people hold hands to feel safe

Where the homeless share fires and tears

Where children lose their innocence to themselves

And the happy sleep like those cries, tears, sobs and broken bones don’t exist

Across the night

Everyone is asleep now

Even those in sleep

And in this city now asleep in splendor and pain

With the fire almost washed out by the unforgiving wind

My hands find their way up belly, through your chest, finally around your neck

My hands and knees begin to crush you

You’ll die now a dreaming fool unaware of the end

With muted gasps and uneven protests sleeping towards death

Just minutes away from the end

Your eyes blaze open

Even the blind can sometimes see

Don’t they?

Sometimes all ailments and blindness has to stop for the truth to live

And if you saw nothing else

You see me now

You see me

Hurting the last chance you ever had

Across the night

Your ghost will haunt the night

Across the night

Nightmares will invite your screams

Across the night

Your face will visible to the young

Across the night

Until the sun will wash you away

Away with it’s unforgiving gaze