Swan Song

[written after Ozarks]

Didn't know this was coming
Should've known, should've known
All those times in your presence
When I felt so alone.

Do I care what the reason?
I can't lend this more sense
when you preface each statement
with "in my defense"

You offer me half --
A fair share on this trade?
Do you know what I've wagered
for this life that we've made?

So I'll take all for all
or my half of your heart,
or fulfil the arrangement
to let death do us part

Lost Treasure

I've searched the sky
past its midnight hours,
seen the sun's hot gaze
through the meteor showers

Touched the fresh wind-blown snow
on the ancient places
as I climbed the scowls etched
on the cliff's granite faces

Treasures for miles
Free for all and anyone
Wish I knew what I had,
can't undo what's been done.

Long obsessed, I discovered
this fabled cave of wonder
(where jewels serve as mere mats
for more valuable plunder).

At the end of this quest,
without means to be saved,
I die a rich man,
all this wealth at my grave.

An end all of us face.
Like these gold sands of time
they escape past my grasp
as I leave all behind...