The world is on fire

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The world is on fire


(To free myself from you

I must hate you

reject you – your core

I never knew anymore)


The world is on fire

tar black earth

and white powder frost

but I saw it all saw it all

I saw you standing there

Nothing set in stone to my secret song

the world is a flower – perfuming us all

every king is a pauper throwing his crown

to the crowd – a true king knows it's a boomerang

And I – I – I sing of myself

in heaven and hell

inventions of dreams

give your flower to me

before I disappear

you – you – you

your skin comes alive

with every tattoo

under moonlight

the eye that closes will drown out the moon

ringing hollow

well a bell does too


I – I – I walk on fire

the ground stone burned dry

every step low and high

on the earth is unstable

that's the secret know I

my so hated sister lives up in the sky


The world is your friend

and you enemy's everywhere

every entity a burning soul

singing out of its turn

while the world overturns

and nothing happens at all

I'm temperance – I'm hatred

I'm love – without fear


If the world doesn't catch you

you merely will fall

I'm the world's enemy

painted face – body free


I have to wake up

from a thousand years' sleep

and pray unto hatred

and reject all you keep

you say nothing true

for me anymore

like you used to


your dark truth

floods the world in a moment

any night crowned over

your every word is a knife

her every gaze is desire

celebrating this life

my faint explanations

run after faint light


goodbye to you

I kill you in me

and if you meet your man

the host of your Christ

you must kill him too

set him free


I would give up blue

to be rid of you

I throw you down the well

you grabbed onto a color

I couldn't even tell

remembered there was something

that used to be there

in everything I saw now

that I could never know what it was


2024/5

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