The Way Through - Deca

The light should shine through your eyes

The light should be spoken through your words

The light should be felt in your deeds

That is the true purpose of our being on this Earth

To uncover the light and let it shine brighter and brighter

I wish that we could clip puppet strings, among other things

And walk hand in hand smiling and suffering

I know a thing or two about the sins love redeems

And what it means to play kings and queens in each other’s dreams

A pyrite crown, a killer whale clavicle;

A phoenix wishbone and shell casings from the Alamo

All powerful, all talk

Hiding from the prying eyes that the walls got

Watchin' while the ball drops

I’m scared of life

Erudite parasites spray pesticides and

pave paradise

Joni Mitchell

never lies

String pullers never tell the truth

They enterprise and fabricate a world view to sell the youth

But when you smile I forget about the mess we made, and life acquires depth

through the trials of yesterday

I met you at a show hiding out behind a lens, basking in your afterglow

smashing time and time again

The silent hymns of lambs laying in the lion’s den are channeled from a higher

plane and planted in the minds of men

You and I could bend the bars back on iron gates, clip puppet strings and crawl

together through the fireplace

I need to trace the contours of a demon’s face

I need the space to say my piece before I leave this place

I need to make the same poundcake Anita bakes and

reawake from the grave to raise Kundalini snakes

The fear of feeling shame’s crippling

You push me in the right direcion, we suffer countless life lessons

Love above everything’s the essence

The revelation, the crown jewel of every earth angel’s education

I’m wide awake now I see it so clear

The sound of wedding bells is like music to my ears

The marriage of heaven and hell

the sacred veil of tears

The conviction that a wish could shatter this house of mirrors