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It’s winter again and I am born again
With the weather dropping its angst and baggage
Gunshots and thunders have been known to not wake me up
I have been blessed with the gift of sleep, in addition to milk and wine
But tonight I stagger out of bed like a drinker
Who was given a particularly potent new brand of ethanol
The piss of the spirits it is called
“It’s time to get rid of the past”
I heard winter’s chilly-sweet voice tell me out of sleep
I dance into the toilet like a goat out of a marijuana joint
Caution: I don’t encourage the use of illicit drugs
I reverently approach the toilet bowl and kneel before it
Like a priest before a deity
I gaze red-misty-eyed into the water
As commanded by winter
And I begin to see the seasons of my life gone by…
Bells in the air
Happy chaos everywhere
It’s the sound of joy and love
Spring came with the first romance of my life
All gift-wrapped and abandoned at my doorstep
I didn’t have to sweat for or with her
The whole feeling was that clear ecstasy you got
When your thoroughly engineered plans fell into place
And you had covered up for all possible lapses
Time flew past fast
Work was meaningful
And better than what I had dreamt of
Oh, things threatened to go wrong at times during the day
But in this spring season, nothing could go awry
I would find me singing as I strolled back from work in the evening
As I smelt the fragrance of freshly growing grasses
And believed all was right with the world
Transition…
A little sweat here and there
But I still got this under control
Summer doesn’t care who your father is
This sun will burn even on the rich as well
A little sweat here a little ache there
And I began to learn the harsher rules of life
I enjoyed growing up and seeing the other sides
But drudgery comes upon every relationship
As the couple grow too familiar with each other
Even the work you love
Soon gathers its own dust and makes you sneeze
You can only hope the heat doesn’t go for too long
Because that would usher in unexpectedly on you
The autumn
Singing: let everything fall and fade away
Let the romance of death begin… la la la
The couple will dance to this song
And it takes two to rock it!
When every good immortalized relationship dies
It takes two to drive the stake through the vampirical heart
And I see how we both did our jobs well in the murder
Remember the threats of things to go wrong during the day
Well, they got their wishes
On the work front, I got the famous sack letter
The heat was too much for too long
Things started looking honestly bleak
But autumn never fails me
Autumn took everything away
Stripped me naked
It reminded me of how I came into the world
This cold place
Where the best season is
Winter
Welcome, winter
The comforter of souls in pain
The season of celebrating the birth of the one called Christ
The time when the year calls us to balance the books
The season that mixes so much sanguinity with melancholy
Here now comes the slow fade
When you hear them sing
From now on our troubles will be out of sight
It just means the cold has made us appropriately numb to them
It was a gradual step
From the innocence and bliss of spring
To the harsh realities of summer
Then to the frank cruelty of autumn
By now, you are fully made
Beaten out into shape
You have seen it all
The pain does not bother anymore
You have hung out your tears on winter to freeze them away
The slow fade has occurred
And I was left wondering if I wanted spring to come next as expected
In that state, did I even bother
I stared at the mirror intently to read my inner desires
But I am the man I once knew
The person I see in the mirror now
Is distorted by the ripples
Of the water in the toilet bowl
I get up reverentially
Dance out of the toilet like a goat out of a marijuana joint
Staggered into bed like a drinker
Totally light and drifting like one
Who has dropped all his angst and baggage
To be born or die again…
Who can ‘let it go’ better than a dead man
Sleep tonight Chris
Let it go
I Feel Shadows 