Monsterfish

MONSTERFISH
I set off on a midnight Cruise
Just Northeast of Newport News
Waterline is trim and tight
Sailing solo through the night
This voyage came to mind last night
Shipping lanes, Atlantic seaboard
On the mains and heading north
I heard a tale in Newport jail
A Monsterfish bigger than a whale

I'd heard of things like this before
Way beyond The Golden Shore
A compass and an outrigger
Aboard the Mystic Mariner
Another journey on the Sea
A few more words for you and me
When it's time to go, I go
But this morning, I don't know

Early warning, hurricane
Red Sky at Morning in refrain
The Northern swell a living hell
8:00 by the Ship’s Bell
Wind and waves, we start to rock
Down below, I’m taking stock
Of everything that I forgot
A few supplies, but not a lot

Circle back on the Starboard side
Hadley's quadrant, Sailor’s Pride
Old Sea chest with maps inside
A ticket to the other side
Tempted to pull into port
And cut my long sea voyage short
That's when I heard a new report
And knew that I must not abort

This mission is a lonely one
I stand before the rising Sun
Only one thing on my mind
Monsterfish, my grand design
On the high seas, bound for nowhere
Cold, stiff breeze runs through my hair
No taverns and no Maidens Fair
I disappear into the air

Pacing in my Captain's lair
Lines and courses everywhere
Rhymes and verses, Grande Opére
Mystic Mariner, beware!

Stay alive till you get there
Mother Nature’s double dare
Davy Jones will have to wait
My heartbeat still lies in state

Tolling bells and wishing wells
Up the mainsail,  Southern swell
Rigging singin” Delta Blues
Hand me down my Sailin’ shoes

It began when ancient man
Took a stand upon the land
And as far as he could see
Said, “This all belongs to me”
Built a castle and a town
Wore a tassel and a crown
Till the soldiers came around
And they burned it to the ground

I was a young Carpenter
Raised and taught by my father
Watching them behead the king
Rolling off the guillotine
Many voices echoing
“The king is dead; long live the king!”
Right there in the burning Sun
We saw the sword fall to the gun

My whole family had to flee
We were scattered everywhere
I took to the endless sea
With a thousand-mile stare
It turned out the captain lied
It seems we'd all been shanghaied
Must have been our destiny
We carried out a mutiny

Strung that monster from the main
Watched him twist in mortal pain
Fighting to take his last breath
Silenced by the hand of death
Days and nights of celebration
Issuing a proclamation
Military domination
Set our sights on all creation

Took the ship, re-christened her
Then, the Mystic Mariner
Set out on a southern reach
Warmer water perfect beach
Stayed down under for a while
Convicted us without a trial
Came down to a split decision
Stay free man, or life in prison

We prepared to sail away
There was still a price to pay
Had to sacrifice the priest
To gain our passage to the East
Our Escape was nearly flawless
Listen to the Four Winds call us
Somewhere out there on the sea
The Mariner make history

Sunrises and evenflows
Hopping archipelagos
Hold her steady as she goes
“Land Ho!” the Galapagos
There were creatures everywhere
On land, in water, in the air
There I met a native girl
Crown of flowers in her hair

Then she took me by the hand
By the fire on the stand
No more long, cold nights alone
Make this paradise your home
Thought about it all night long
Held her close until the dawn
Come the morning we were gone
Why must I keep moving on?

On this voyage you find out
What your life is all about
You'll see things you've never seen
Go places you've never been
Just when you think that's the end
You sail off around the bend
To your Life you must attend
Into hell you must descend

Three days and nights, you’re down the well
Bodies lying where they fell
You're alone and fighting still
Grendel circles for the kill
Red light flashing, fire alarm
Bare hands, you tear off his arms
Monster limps back to his lair
Bleeds to death way down in there
When it's time to end the fight
You ascend into the light
No longer a prisoner
Back on the Mystic Mariner

Come the bright and early morn
Sailing down around Cape Horn
Decidedly romantic
Pacific turns to Atlantic
Southern breeze, we set a course
Eastern seaboard, heading north
Between time and oblivious
Sail into the Caribbean

Devil becomes the Intruder
Windward side of Bermuda
Battered and hurricane tossed
Mariner hopelessly lost
Horror, terror, disbelief
Good Ship Founders on a reef
Tears her wooden hill in two
Lost 10 members of her crew

Another night came falling down
Islanders were gathered round
Paddling wooden canoes
Set themselves to our rescue
Pulled the Mariner from the waves
Found the bodies, dug the grave
10 men's names were carved in stone
10 more Sailors going home

Ship's Bell chimed just 10 more times
Silenced then, forever
Captain's Log wrote 10 more lines
Captured to the letter
We worked to rebuild the ship
Made her even better
Her soul was still on fire in her
Still the Mystic Mariner
Hoist the flag and trim the sails
Neptune's Deep is off the rails
Fast asleep and marking time
Somewhere over the borderline
On the morrow, into port
Passage to the Royal Court
Jokers, courtesans and dukes
Loyal citizens above rebuke

At last, I stand before the king
Golden Crown and Diamond Ring
A scepter forged with seven jewels
Instruments, weapons, toys and tools
Accidents happen on a ship of fools
Sea witch throws away the rules
Greenwich Mean encircling
The Moon is green and sparkling

Come with me, my Darlings
We'll fly away like Starlings
The moon on the horizon
As we pass the Southern Island
Southern Cross is on the rise
Harvest Moon is in your eyes
Hypnotize and magnetize
Hold your woman when she cries

Should we sail another day
Through the Golden Isles of Mandalay
Castaway and castaway
Two more souls on fire today
When two hearts burn, or so they say
Ice floes North from Glacier Bay
Eskimos with truncheon clubs
Murdering Sea Lion cubs
For their teeth and fat and skin
Undressed till we sew you in

Ill, depressed and caving in
Undistressed by waves of sin
The Lord has blessed the skin you’re in
Before you let the devil in
The Word came down from Mount Sinai
The Sermon on the Mount
The vermin underneath the soil
All slithering about

Beneath a desert full of oil
Bubble, bubble, trouble, toil
Death and taxes where we bled
Sharpened axes for our heads
Bodies floating in the bay
A million miles from yesterday
No more preaching, nevermore
Another teaching is in store

Beam reach, sandy beach
Seagulls circling the shore
When we know just what's in store
No calls to action anymore
Slow distraction and reaction
I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Buckshot blunderbuss for sure
Kill shot from a mile offshore

Plymouth Rock, a wooden dock
Tick tock, tick tock, Grandfather clock
In the Mystic, death awaits
No eclipse, the hands of Fate
Appointments with uncertain dates
Anointments down from Heaven's Gate
Perhaps you think that I forgot
How this old hand from Camelot
Became this Johnny-on-the-spot
In the Land That Time Forgot

I'll tell you once, I'll tell you true
Come the day that I lost you
Gone to fulfill my hardest wish
To hunt and kill the Monsterfish
7 lifetimes round the World
Another wife, another girl
Another shot at Victory
Cannonballs across the Sea

Court martials and mutiny
Fall of empires, In- Country
People riot in the street
Lead and steel and cold concrete
Good and evil now shall meet
Now I lay me down to sleep

Late that night we cast our lot
Back room of a blacksmith shop
Forged in steel in Camelot
The Good Lord's war might never stop
Siren song from the Northeast
Jaws and belly of The Beast
Men, supplies, guns and stock
Northeast passage, Vladivostok

Before departing, we took a night
To satisfy our appetites
To never have to wonder why
We do the things we do tonight
Red light district, Sailortown
 A Geisha girl in a wedding gown
Took these old Sea Dogs to town
Flipped a finger to the Crown

What's underneath a Scotsman’s kilt
Are not boxers made of silk
Smooth and clean as buttermilk
The Water Silk and Castle Milk
Gypsy Queen lies in between
Taste of liquor on her breath
Holding me to her sweet breast
To leave, a Herculean Test

That night after midnight
And long before the Sun
Ready for a firefight
And no one Born To Run
We eased out of the harbor
Our Ship all dark that night
We'd see a lot of Open Sea
Before the morning light

Last thing I remember
As we all sailed away
Nine hail and hearty Mariners
Vanished in the gray
Banished from the kingdom
Nevermore to stay
Somewhere between Evermore
And the Shores of Mandalay

Once loyal to the king
We gave the Royals everything
And at the dimming of the day
They took it all away
Celestial navigation
Sailing by the Stars
Onward to Jerusalem
And to the Holy Wars

Following Sea behind us
Under the Moons of Mars
A Southern swell insistently
Takes us farther North
Gone from home and family
And searching for the truth
Weather started getting harder
From the Arctic Circle North

We thought we couldn't make it
Truly do or die
We were all forsaken
Our tears had long run dry
But somewhere in the shadows
Of the dreams we left behind
The specter of The gallows
Etched upon our minds

All the fields are fallow
In this endless Wintertime
The clouds surround the shallows
At this final End of Times
And should the door be opened
To the darkness of your mind
How will you remember
What you came here to find

I can still recall
The writing on the wall
The hieroglyphs and petroglyphs
From long before the fall
And when the sky was opened
There were no birds to sing
We set a plan in motion
To assassinate the King

The fog pulls in around us
A chill is in the air
Satanic voices calling us
From somewhere over there
Under cover of the night
Eastern Star still burning bright
My crew and I are ready now
To lie and disavow

To die and then somehow
To come around again
Flank them from the other side
Then bend them to our whim
When this battle's over
We won't be back again
Across the North Atlantic
Gone way around the bend

People in a panic
As we ease along the coast
Under cover of the night
Our flag, the Royal Host
Called my boatswain to the wheelhouse
And prayed to the Holy Ghost
What we do we must conceal
When we’re through, we must not feel

Lord, take my memory away
Captain's Log another day
So many things I cannot say
About the things we did that day
But, as the smoke was clearing
Our flag high on the mast
The worst that we were feeling
About to come to pass

We swept on through the breakers
Then North along the shore
We were daunting the oddsmakers
Who were counting out the golden ore
The wind was howling at the moon
The loon was hooting through the gloom
North, out of  Nova Scotia Bay
When all the lights did fade away

We found ourselves adrift at sea
Nine men loss in reverie
Staring into eternity
Nothing there we could not see
As if the light came from within
The hearts and souls of normal men
Departed from their families
Deserted on the 7 Seas
An eerie calm befalls us
As we lash against the mast
A weary Voice now calls us
From now into the past
The years just fall away from us
Like pages from a book
Nine sages came upon us
Said, “Come and take a look”

We all stood out there at the rail
Our second sight had pierced the veil
And somewhere out there in the sky
We heard an ancient lullaby
Something happened to us then
It seemed nine men now numbered 10
A prodigal come back again
From somewhere out beyond the ken

Swept away above the Sea
Sailing through Eternity
The Sky above, the Earth below
Our heading now, only God knows
Solar winds and Quasars
Like Diamonds in the Sky
100 million billion stars
In the blinking of an eye
In astonished rapture
We caught what we could capture
The End was so much faster
Than any one of us could master
Sparkling water, mirror flat
Cosmos all reflecting that
The Stars like Crystals in your hand
Surpassing all we understand

It could have been an Eon
Or a moment out of Time
God's hand upon the rudder
And sweet Harmony Divine
Polaris still did point our way
A strange Magnetic Field
Deranged, kinetic holiday
And a new way to be healed

The water strangely warmer
Then it was an hour before
A heaven bound barnstormer
And a key to the Golden Door
Nobody will remember
Why we went off to War
Through November and December
No one saw us anymore
Stand down, Boys, Anchor’s Aweigh
We take some time to kneel and pray
We don't know how to feel today
Since today turned into yesterday
So we're standing on the ground
Yet somehow, we’re upside down
Since there’s no direction here
Much of this remains unclear

Particles in a living stream
Awakening inside the dream
Nothing there, no thing at all
No manger, cradle, market stall
Let your mind break through the wall
It isn't really there at all
Comes a time we hear the call
And we must answer, one and all

Went homing birds shall take to wing
With Glory to the Newborn King
And all of us have gone away
To a bright and brand new day
There will still be Hell to pay
Another Life and dying day
Hear the Sacred, Holy Word
From the sepulchre, interred
When that Great White & Golden Bird
Shall come to carry you away
And all the stories you have heard
Just vanish in the Gray
When all the Angel Voices
Will not be heard again
You, my Friend, will come to know
That we must not pretend

We are All God's children
And Soldiers at the fore
You won't hear us coming
When we come through your door
But when we do, I promise you
That when we do what we must do
We’ll burn your crown deep underground
And we won't see you anymore

Land of the free and home of the slave
Sweet victory till you're dead in the grave
Lord can you see I have no souls to save
Whatever happened to the Home of the brave?
Savage solutions for all that we see
No Constitution for our Ministry
One proclamation for Eternity
Alienation is our industry

Grave situation lies up Dead ahead
Black coronation, the Good King is dead
All that we bled, we read and we said
No bed of Roses where we lay our bed
Out where the Black becomes Indigo
Pure Source Creation of Mind, Heart & Soul
Forever to Rock, and ever to Roll
Down by the dock where the FIshermen go

When I was younger, I wouldn't have cared
Better and stronger than Devils may care
Suspended in space like an atom of air
A life and disgrace in the tunnels down there
Where were the Virtues when we needed them?
Burning down churches in Salem and then
Mock trials and torture for Women and Men
We ask your support when the battle begins

For now, our heading is Andromeda
Fish hooks and netting , Galactica
Old books and bedding are practical
So unforgettably tactical
From where we are positioned
We can see most everything
From the Spanish Inquisition
To the beheading of Kings

From far across the water
We can hear the ancient call
From Russia and Etruschia
To footsteps down the hall
From where we all were yesterday
To this nowhere at all
Sailing through the Milky Way
And straight for the Ice Wall

Beyond all of the Galaxies
At the Edge of the Universe
We have pledged all our identities
Till time runs in reverse
When all the polls and planets
Shall start to realign
Coming into Harmony
At a frequency Divine

For all the rhymes and reasons
That one old man can make
The Garrison’s lLaisons
Mayday terrible mistake
Sun Tzu in The Art Of War
Says don't underestimate
Your Opponent's forces or his skill
As he circles for the kill

There will come another time
On this, you all can ease your minds
That you'll invade his Castle keep
And burn his house down in his sleep
If ever he awakens
On this you can rely
He will dog you to the heavens
Until it's your time to die

Polaris pulls us into Night
Starfire made of candlelight
So beautiful, it makes us cry
As we fly right by Alpha Cephei
Lightless night in a sapphire sky
Weightless now, and we can fly
Before we know, we see the glow
Of Summer coming down below

Trim the sails and set the tack
Come about and head on back
They say all’s fair in Love and War
But they don't know what love is for
You and I are still free men
Round and round and back again
Hasten to know this, my friend
We have gone beyond The End

Like Daniel in the Lion's den
Our Spirits will be around again
But till that time, I can't say when
We must face the bitter end
Splashdown, crash down, home again
Somewhere in the icy seas
Northward from Great Britain
We fell down to our knees

Please, Dear Lord, please save us
You told us you forgave us
When they came to enslave us
And we fought them away
Then, we looked around us
And what we saw did astound us
Phantasmic Circus Maximus
Photo-Orgasmic Homo Erectus

Light that sparkles, light that shines
Light that opens up your mind
Light that saves you from a life of crime
Light that comes from the divine
None of that light here right now
O, my Brother, Where Art Thou?
In our time of greatest need
We eat the fruit of demon seed

Raise your sword and cut the line
Praise the word at the end of time
If you seek then you shall find
To the east of the borderline
Take care with all that you prepare
Let the voices take you there
When it’s time to fight the war
The light won't shine there anymore

And so at last, it comes to pass
The revolt of the working class
King Henry VIII, the War with France
Centuries of pomp and circumstance
We flew the flag of marine merchants
Like 4 & 20 vestal virgins
Black knights from behind the curtain
Long dark nights and time uncertain

When that fat, old despot
Could not produce a son
He killed his wives off one by one
It began when Anne Boleyn
And her cousin, Catherine
Tower of London, Tower Green
Tried, convicted of their sin
Forever in the in between
From Britain to the Irish Moor
There came a truly Regal Queen
Her name was Jane Seymour

Isolated motion
In suspended animation
Shadowplay devotion
Of a devastated Nation
There would come another day
An Royal Coronation
And all across old London Town
A joyful celebration

We waited till the fog came in
Downriver on the Thames
Riverbanks crawling with vermin
Not enemies nor friends
And all the while, our stockpile
Had dwindled to the end
Rescinded from the rock pile
To stand and fight again

Abreast and abeam
The Olde Tower Green
We could hear the crowd scream
As if in a dream
“Off with her head!,”
A lot of them said
Chop! The blade dropped
And Jane Grey was dead

As silent as a Black Cat
Death will often come like that
To this sad loss we can't attend
To our task, we now must bend
Our shoulders, muscles and our backs
For now, the Monsterfish attacks
Running, yelling, firing guns
Coming from all sides at once

We took a hit on the port side
“Come about!” the Botswain cried
We saw the Monster whip around
Grab a man and pull him down
I can't forget the site or sound
As we watched our brother drown
More screams coming from the stern
It seems that we had more to learn

There's no ending to this tale
Or to The Men who try and fail
A journey in eternity
Since Jonah and the Whale
Stalwart Captain Ahab
And the white Whale, Moby Dick
We all must face our Monsterfish
And our Gorillas in the Mist

As London Town did celebrate
The Mariner met her final fate
One more time in Indigo
Fate shall lead and we shall follow
We might never get the chance
Changing partners at the dance
The bounding Main, then calm again
On the Seine in Paris, France

History changes
But time stays the same
You're only as good
As the drop of your name
We’ll always remember
The good Lady Jane
Who bore the first Edward
And died in great pain

The reign of Edward the 1st
Was morally, mortally cursed
Spent a lot of time alone
Only 9  when he took the throne
Church of England, British Isles
Overrun with pedophiles
Edward might have been the Queen
Died when he was just 16

But that was then and this is now
And as the Fates must disallow
The retelling of an old Sea tale
In the belly of the Whale
And so we come to turn the page
To the Elizabethan age
And Francis 1 the King of Gaul
The Renaissance and Royal Ball

Hear the thunder, hear the call
Raise your voices, one and all
Timeless echoes, Albert Hall
Alice when she's 10’ tall
There's no sense to time at all
It's nonsense from before the fall
Man-made construction, 9x9
Programmed destruction, End of Time

We never gave thought to this
Lost, we were, in endless mist
Arm & Hammer, power fist
Hard windjammer, Monsterfish

When at last the Sun came out
Drop the sheets and come about
Le Paramour de La Reine
Jusque autours de La Seine
Tu oublies, ma Cherie
Comment le Soleil brille
Et le Rossignol
Qui chantait dans La Nuit

Mais d’ici jusque a là
De la haut a la bàs
De sous Le Mer a l’atmosphére
A bord du Mystique Marinére
Desde aqui hasta alla
Lo que sigue, la verdad
La lingua no ha importanza
Nel Concorso d’Eleganza

So then, did Peace
slowly return
To the Northeast
The fire still burned
We prayed that The Beast
Had slaked his great thirst
But we knew, at least
To prepare for the worst

Living the Prophecy
In chapter and verse
Despotic monarchies
And Lucifer's curse
Forever a battle
Perpetual War
Preparing a table
Of harlots and whores

Of charlatans, fakers
Candlestick makers
Of Legends & Myths
Like this Monsterfish
A word to the wise:
The truth is revised
Wrapped up in disguise
A culture of lies

Egyptians, Freemasons, whose Geometry
Controls the Space Stations
In All of the Galaxies
Cosmic information in Totality
Provide the foundation of our Reality

You would not know if I did not say
Whence came the long day before yesterday
When the songs ever played in a long Hit parade
Gazebos and gardens, we lay in the shade
Woe did befall all of the plans we made
Running the guns of the southern slave trade
Climactic fight before the final fade

Our poetry, a tapestry
So, please go ahead
Find yourself pulling
A long woolen thread
Weave it into your lifetime
Into both yours and mine
We’ll come into harmony
When the Stars align

Keep the fires burning
With candlelight at night
Remember what you’re learning
And you will be alright
The world is ever turning
And day turns into night
We all smiled and waved goodbye
Then we stepped into the Light

It came upon us instantly
From way beyond us, distantly
Particle acceleration
Audible articulation
Implausible explanation
Irreducible calculation

The contents of one mind alone
Unbound, without constraints
Would fill more volumes than the works
Of all Masters and Saints
11 minds together
In the first light of forever
A tidal wave of images
Ancient sacred pilgrimages

Pillaging the villages
Killing for the thrill of it
Sacrificial privileges
Dimensional linguistics
Institutional statistics
All new marching orders
New bridges over troubled waters

Bible, Vedas and Quran
Palestine, The Holy Land
Desert Storm, Afghanistan
Iraq, Iran and Vietnam
9/11, Virgin Heaven
7 generation plan
Skybound Silver Raven
All foretell the End of Man

Lamb’s Blood into cherry wine
Herculean 7 Signs
Earth Museum, End of Times

Atlantean inundation
Mississippi Delta Cajun
Pentatonic convocation
Cosmologic ordination
Philosophic education
Pure Socratic Conversation
Herbalist initiation
And the Mind’s True Liberation

In the details much is seen
Set sail on the in-between
Sparkling fractals, medicine
Pterodactyl’s Primal Scream
More united than apart
More divided than we thought
Life’s a complicated art
Orchestrated from the start

But here within Infinity
Recurring into symmetry
Circles turning everything
Arise, awaken, praise and sing
Ring the church bells, bang the gong
Raise your voice in joyful song
Make your choice and move along
Erewhon to Amazon

A billion pixel collage
By Master Adi Da Samraj
Nanometric photographs
From a lab in the garage
Sandstorm in an hourglass
Legacy or epitaph
Landforms vanish in a flash
One last act of God’s last laugh

Things seem to be slowing down
There’s a rustling, hollow sound
Water springing from the ground
Nature’s miracles abound
People come from all around
Village Square, the heart of town
Witness to the First Sundown
White satin communion gown

Jungle dream comes into focus
Deepest green with emerald locus
Tree of life, the Avatar
If you should wonder where you are
You have only lost your way
Since you left home yesterday
You have grown and traveled far
Come, remember who you are
What did you come here to do?

What is it we promised you?
Remember how you trusted us
When your body turned to dust?
We have not forgotten you
We have only gotten you
To where you could not go before
To lead you safely through the war

You had to particulate
And reassemble in a state
Of suspended animation
You came without reservation
You have shown the Spirit
Of the true Adventurer
Sailor, Soldier, Explorer, Guide
Cartographer, Astronomer
Philosopher and Scribe
Mystery, magic and voodoo
Like battle cries inside of you
Generosity can thrill you
Curiosity can kill you

At last our journey takes us in
Below the canopy
Landscape starts to undergo
A strange morphology
Everything is moving here
And teeming with biology
Creatures crawling on the land
From the bottom of the Sea

Now you can go back and forth
East or West or South or North
You can vector endlessly
Dimension 4 trajectory
Take it up another D
Maybe even 2 or 3
Hawking gave us 23
Dimensions of Eternity

For me, it is all poetry
Just my way to make you see
Past Dimension 23
To the Source of Infinity
Divine Hands created you
With purpose and intention
And a plan was made for you
That no one thought to mention

There’s important work to do
On our vision quest
To find a special boy or girl

And put them to the test

There are 17 objects
In a simple, wooden chest
The child’s job is just to guess
The one from God, from all the rest

There are silks and satins
As fine as spiderweb
A golden, woven skullcap
And a little crust of bread
Himalayan malas
Worn by the bodhisattvas
A scepter and a staff
Hand-selected photographs

A jeweled serpent from Istanbul
A turban from a Persian fool
Weapons, toys and tools
Lessons learned in school
A Crystal Skull, a Bonsai Tree
A crown of jewels, a silver key
Virgin wool, a golden fleece
Grace and ease, Eternal Peace

The Children come from all around
And everywhere, all over town
Village Square, a joyful sound
As the Sun is going down
Instruments and water harps
Wood incense and Meadowlarks
Blazing bonfire, flaming sparks
People dancing in the dark

Here in Northern Africa
Blood of native pride
Aramaic and Hebrew
Echo now inside of you
Nile River, ancient tongues
The Amazon in everyone
This long road you’ve been traveling on
Still waits for you when you are gone

The Saints That shepherd you along
Have taken you to Babylon

Everything that you have seen
And all you’ve said and done
Awakened you inside a dream
And Homeward to The One

Leave behind your state of mind
From out there on the salt and brine
Lay down by the Waterline

The leaders of the villages
The heads of all the tribes
Medicine men and women
From the Garden of Paradise
Children of good families
The brightest and the best
Hopeful eyes all asking
May I try and pass the test

Emissaries came and went
Ambassadors and parliaments
None of that means anything
All are on the same footing
12 of us all human now
A living Bodhisattva vow
We cast a shadow when we walk
Our voices echo when we talk

Everyone knows who we are
That we’re descended from a star
They accept us as we are
Emanations from afar
They think we know something
They don’t know already
We’re revealing nothing
Till we’re sure that they are ready

We’ve been on the golden line
Since before the start of time
We are sworn to walk the line
We don’t turn water into wine
We help Souls to find their way
From Nowhere to Mandalay
And though we are from far away
This is where we are today

We set up a canvas tent
One by one, they came and went
Children in their innocence
Parents and their arguments
Squabbling like parrots
Over who is this or that
Settling their differences
Like little dogs and cats

When it was recorded
The people were informed
We’re sorry to report it
But there is no One Child Born
Seven years of searching
Have brought us nothing more
We’re back to the beginning
On the shores of Evermore

Just as we are set to leave
One more thing we can’t believe
Queen of Hearts is up our sleeve
What we conceive, we can achieve
A little girl up on the hill
I can see her up there, still
All night long, she played alone
Only home she’d ever known

Her Father is a Carpenter
With his hands, he built the school

Where her Mother teaches languages
And her brothers are so cool
There’s nothing strange about her
But she does not like rules
She thinks the ones that made them
Are a ship of stupid fools

Her name is Cielita
And she is only 7
Her name means Beloved
On Earth and up  in Heaven
Everybody loves her
Just a happy little girl
No one ever told her
She's come to save the world

We look at each other
It just can’t be true
Soul of the Divine Mother
A living portrait of you
When you were just a little one
Running around in the sun
A little girl,  just having fun
A part of her in everyone

She doesn’t want to come inside
After all the ones who tried
She doesn’t have a thing to hide
She just wants to play outside
She chose a garden in the shade
An arbor her Grandfather made
Abuelo and Abuelita
Gave her the name, Cielita

The whole town was gathered round
When we brought the treasures down
The child’s smile turned to a frown
She pointed at the ground
If you want to play with me
Then please just put them down
She said nothing after that
Cat eyes watching from a coal-black matte

We set the objects down in front
Arranged them in an arc
She touched and looked at every one
When something seemed to spark
You asked me which one was Divine
It seems so very odd
It’s plain to see all 17
Were all handmade by God

So perfect in every way
Down to the last detail
Crafted into everyday
Things that never fail
To attract the eye
Or even tell a tale or two
That’s when she looked up at me
And said, “I see through you”

Flying all around her
Were little hummingbirds
Rainbow colors shimmering
And echoing her words
Single-pointed concentration
New anointed consecration
Spiraling Mandala
Appointment in Valhalla

Cielita is the Angel
Who fell through Space and Time
An interdimensional
Like all of the Divines
Now here we stand together
Out on the Borderline
Between mortal and Divine
Where the rhythm turns to rhyme

Cielita wasn’t finished
With the things she had to say
In silence for a minute
As we put the things away
She looked sadly up at us
A teardrop in her eye
She said, “I know I must say goodbye
But I still don’t know why”

She smiled again and looked at us
There’s nothing to fear
Your bodies are like magic dust
You were never even here
I hope that you will understand
Just what I’m doing here
With those words she waved her hand
And All the objects disappeared

 Everyone stopped everything
Like music with no words to sing
Suddenly we’re swept away
Quicker than we came this way
Almost like we knew the way
Was just to let the children play

Another Sunset in the West
Shadow of the hardwood chest
We brought it to the Riverside
A light was shining from inside
Right there for all eyes to see
Sweet Cielita looked at me

Open the locks, look in the box
Tell us what you think  you see
I looked around at all the faces
Another round of saving graces
No more hidden secret places
No more war between the races
There inside the chest
Were 17 objects

Exactly as they were
On the long, hot night before
It’s as if they’d not been touched
No tarnish, not a speck of dust
No traces of ash or rust
As it is, forever was
Nothing had prepared us
And no one could have spared us

We heard the Angel chorus
Echo through the forest
A white bird with a golden tail
Flew in so easily
Landed on Cielita’s hand
And spoke through her to me

Mateo, you’re the shepherd
The one who knows the way
I said, “I don’t know anything
I learned before today”

The way into forever
Is here in present time
Just let go of all you know
And listen to the rhyme
It’s not something to wait for
I promise you it’s true
If you’re hearing these words now
I’m talking to you

Let go of what you think this is
Come into the Now
You’ve waited for this so long
You’ve forgotten how
Surrender now and meditate
It’s what I’m here to demonstrate
We all pray it’s not too late
To influence the hands of Fate

Oceans of imagination
Maybe a hallucination
You won’t know the difference
With the Universe in confluence
Come aboard if you are ready
Mateo, can you hold her steady?
You’re the only one alive
Who isn’t on the other side

The others are among us
But they are diaphanous
A mist surrounding all of us
In Genesis or Exodus
I’m known to be an able hand
When minutes turned to hours
Hurricanes, I understand
Start with a chance of showers

Another look into the chest
Captain’s log and a manifest
Pages, pages of my best
Where I talked about the test
It had all been written down
Long before we came to town
That’s my handwriting for sure
Seems I have been here before

That’s when I was left behind
The crew had all been of one mind
Maritime conspiracy
Courts called it a mutiny
A brutal act of treachery
Death, they said, too good for me
A lifetime in exile
Written in the summary

Of the kangaroo mock trial
An executable offense
At the end of the Green Mile
In existential suspense

Nothing that was happening
Had not happened before
As though we keep revolving
Through an ever-open door
And though the times are changing
They will always be the same
Unless we become masters
Of disaster, fear and pain

They left me on an island
Deserted and alone
At least I was alive
But still, so very far from home
It was a work colony
An endless diamond mine
All built by the whitest men
To ever walk through time

They opened the first portal
Way down in the mine
A door for the immortals
Down by the Waterline
A tribe of ancient Warriors
Their crest a flaming sword
Their quest is one of couriers
Their message is the Word

Time in all our histories
We strike some minor chords
Enfolded by the mysteries
We all lay down our swords
The circle keeps on turning
The fire keeps on burning
The skills that you are learning
Are eternally evolving

They say that the Universe
Is both static and expanding
For me the high mathematics
Are especially demanding
There’s no crossing over
Till you know where you’re standing
Are you Pilot or the passenger
When you come in for a landing

Can you feel the Rapture
That surpasses understanding?
Have you burned a bridge too far
Do you wonder who you are?
6 billion mortal souls
Gone in just six days
Hard to say just where They went
They all went different ways

You can find the answer
In a little child’s gaze
Sweet  Cielita dances
As it all just fades away
If you want to come with us
It’s time that you decide
We will let you run with us
If you know the way inside

We lay our course at Twilight
As the last rays fade away
A bold and brawny good night
Through a narrow passageway
Friends and neighbors wave us off
And send us on our way
Time bends again, and never ends
Here in Mandalay
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