November 17, 2013

Nightfall


In the end all will service a master
The light or a false shinning sun
Truth can be blind in our sorrow
That the legions of shadow have won

Best hope for by they of the mourning
are mysteries bound to bent knee
A lost ones illusion of glory
shrouding a higher kings plea 

Around we have come to full circle
Shades of salvation are real
Wishing to walk as the risen
Who when troubled had only to kneel

Choosing a long journey homeward
Fate and a choice seal the gate
For justice though turning from darkness
Is righteous when faith wakes too late

Risk not the dawn to damnation
For the rights to bear witness the toll
Master please say you've not left me
The night has not taken my soul

- Hermit King-

October 21, 2013

Papa's Dreamer




Against my chest like robins breath

Your sighs have set me weeping

What"s your dream my little one

Just three days young a sleeping



Of mysteries old men forget

Of stars and heavens spinning

Racing angels through the mist

Of touching earth and winning



Tying lassos round the moon

Riding balls of thunder

Tasting rainbows after rain

Swimming seas of wonder


Firecrackers in the sun

Snacks on milky way

Floating with the twilight

Waiting for your day



Perhaps it is a present tense

That stirs your infant breast

A thought of your first dawning

And your life's commencing test



I hope you dream of ancient eyes

Whose love you'll never sever

Looking down upon you now

Through you to see forever
-Hermit King-

February 13, 2013

The Forge


Heated hammered folded
cooled
Blacksmith battered crafter
tooled

Honed and polished razors
edge
Born to bare a prince's
pledge 

Battle wearied blessed in
peace
Life's defender death's
release

Thought to some a sabers 
art
Deeper still the human 
heart 

   -Hermit King-

January 18, 2013

Armstrong



Lance you had it on the ball
Sorry it has spread
Cancer in your spirit now
Keep it from your head

Go a mile maybe two
Run it sink or swim
Lead a life of living strong
Get back to the gym

Now you own the journey
Money face and mind
Searching all new answers
Hurt and riding blind

Race is never over son
Justice willed the win
Whipped by act of treason
Tempered hard in sin

Pedal to the medal Lance
Life is just a lease
Leave the sick to shadow
Run the rest in peace

-Hermit King-