Planet Wave

Age of dragons rising:
Crisis and terror stalk the heart;
Crimes thrive under the skin;
Wars and catastrophes boil
From within to without.
These structures,these philosophies
Cannot survive their own lies.
Confused,volatile,the minds
Of the many fall into hell,
Mad to consume beyond all hope,
To purchase mere daydreams.

As we ramp on joyful meaning,
We welcome,somehow, despair,
Racked between liberty and order,
Between matter and idea.
Clocking ominous ages, the planets
Align;storms ignite,disastrous
Or reviving,with winds both malign
And beneficent,and swelling tides:
The times speak fate and power,
When the best and the worst
Play chess for the soul of man.

The agents of our minds,
The inventors of reality,
Point another destiny
We must wreak in the world.
The womb’s fruit is ours to create
Before the sperm meets the egg.

There are many ways to kill
And many ways to die before death;
Transits of Uranus and Pluto
Lead into the perilous deep.
Here,in the proving ground,
We measure ourselves against the sky.
Some are inspired;others lose their minds,
Choosing madness as if it were bliss.
The ground and the underground
Weigh us in their balance.
Festering ills and horrors rise,
Burst their disguises.
The balloon is going up...