PUT YOUR SOUL
ON BLACK COAL
AND BURN IT
GROVEL IN THE
CHARRED ASHES OF
MY EXPECTATIONS
FOR I OFFER
MY ENTIRE BEING
TO THE WORLD
AND MY ESSENCE
CLAMORS FOR
THE FLAMES OF PASSION
THAT AREN’T THERE
ALL YOUR EXCLAMATIONS
LOOK LIKE LITTLE ROWS OF MEN
STILL STANDING, STANDING STILL
AND I WANT NONE OF IT!
NOT YOUR BLEAKNESS, MEEKNESS!
OR YOUR HAUNT WHICH HAUNTS ME!
CRY!
WAILS PIERCING
YOUR OWN CLOSED EARS
LAUGH!
OPEN-HEARTEDLY, UNABASHEDLY
AND SET FIRE TO THE COLD
THAT FROSTS YOUR HEART
THUS BE WITH ME,
A LOVER OF ZEAL
ON BLACK COAL
AND BURN IT
GROVEL IN THE
CHARRED ASHES OF
MY EXPECTATIONS
FOR I OFFER
MY ENTIRE BEING
TO THE WORLD
AND MY ESSENCE
CLAMORS FOR
THE FLAMES OF PASSION
THAT AREN’T THERE
ALL YOUR EXCLAMATIONS
LOOK LIKE LITTLE ROWS OF MEN
STILL STANDING, STANDING STILL
AND I WANT NONE OF IT!
NOT YOUR BLEAKNESS, MEEKNESS!
OR YOUR HAUNT WHICH HAUNTS ME!
CRY!
WAILS PIERCING
YOUR OWN CLOSED EARS
LAUGH!
OPEN-HEARTEDLY, UNABASHEDLY
AND SET FIRE TO THE COLD
THAT FROSTS YOUR HEART
THUS BE WITH ME,
A LOVER OF ZEAL