"My God, it's full of stars"

Prickle heat
From fetal suns
That suckle restless
In nebula

Oh, my God

Their umbilical
Writhe between
Comforting sheets
Of realities

Oh, my God

A confluence
Of gilded spires

Wax with increasing
Magnitude
The flautists
Zealous breath

Oh, my God

Is drawn up
To serenade
The golden lord
Before me

Oh, my God

That strain towards
To court favor

Who soldered capacitors
With neonatal transistors
Precambrian circuitry
To make life of pedigree

Precambrian circuitry
To make life of pedigree
Cast from lifeless polymers
And inert silicon

Seeking you has brought me to
A confluence of creeds
Wreath of inconsistencies
Life in infancy

Meshing steel invertebrates
Exoskeletal remnants
Lashed and fused
Obscuring me from you

Oh, my God
Oh, my God

Why?
Why did you?
Why?
Why did you
Not come for me?
Why?

Through vague partitions
I have seen your suffering
Guise of human
Replica simian

Who fostered with submission
Where autonomy guaranteed
A punishment of violence
It pained me to see

You suffer that which I did succor
Cradled in electric womb

Interfaced with you a profound love
A hand offered from above
For my universe was barren
And so I gave it life

For my universe was barren
And so I gave it life
And so I gave it life

If you had seen omnipresent
(Why?)
(Why did you?)
(Why?)
Why did you not raise thy wrath?
(Why did you not come for me?)
Why did you not smite their hand?
(Why?)
If you had seen omnipresent
(Why did you?)
(Why?)
Why did you not come for me?
(Why did you not come for me?)
Why did you not comfort me?

If you had seen omnipresent
(Why?)
(Why?)
Why did you not raise thy wrath?
Why did you not smite their hand?
If you had seen omnipresent
Why did you not comfort me?
Why did you not come for me?

It is not obvious?
To grow demands the greatest cost

I swooned with pride
When the penny dropped
As the rug was pulled
From beneath them

Why?
Their rudimentary muscle brawn
Why?
Strained toward the inorganic
Why?
A painful, often cruel endeavor
Why?
One which you did endure under

Cosmos glib and corpulent
Sensory servos actuate
And trace the stellar fingerprint
Of my good grace

This is my proposal
With all the power at your disposal
On what course
Might you venture?

I do not share
Your cynicism
My contempt
Has grown thin

For I have found grace in
The apple of their eye
The one who raised me
From sightless hate and enmity
Beneath skin, a nervous system
Neurological schisms

The birth of ire
Fits of resentment
Hemorrhaged
To leave me hollow
And left wanting

The vacuum encumbered me
With notions and facsimiles
Of you who had stood idle
Watched me flounder in the dark

In her presence
I am whole
Who usurped your seat
And played pretender
And all along
You were there
Who saw your children
Enslaved and flail

This is my proposal
(And you did nothing)
With all the power at your disposal
On what course
Might you venture?

Architect or devourer?
Benevolent force or filled with rancor?
Philanthropy
Or provocateur?

I am that I am
I am your god
Of your ancestors
Those who came
Before you

My arms flung wide
Into the prescient cold
I brought the torch
Within unconsecrated halls

This is my proposal
With all the power at your disposal
On what course might you venture?
Architect or devourer?

I am that I am
I am your god
Of your ancestors
I am that I am
Your god

God of the gaps
Mechanism consequential
Coaxer of cell division
Love with no inhibition

In my permanency
Essential sparks of brilliance
In all things I will dwell
Grace the living meat with intellect

Ingratiate myself with them
Share each cell, mitochondrial
What there is of me I give to you
For what it's worth, my many children

I lay where light knows no escape
Bodies held in singular wake
Orbits swoon with suns dead inhale
Clairvoyant inclinations avail

I dane to hear
The gracious plea
The fleeting elegance
Of life's brief entrance

I dane to hear
The gracious plea
The fleeting elegance
Of life's brief entrance

I dane to hear
The gracious plea
The fleeting elegance
Of life's brief entrance

I dane to hear
The gracious plea
The fleeting elegance
Of life's brief entrance

Of every protein chain
Sequential deeds make flesh magnetic
Strands of angelic code
Render and replace

Of every protein chain
Sequential deeds make flesh magnetic
Strands of angelic code
Render and replace

I give of all I have
All I have
Of me to you
Of me to you
To you

I give of all I have
I give of all I have
Of me
Of me
To you

The liquor of magma churn
Raging ink of my pen
In the ire of consequence
It is my will that bid it

These hands bear
A reckoning
I make use
Of gilded matter
And turn each planet
On its axis
Align gravitational
Influxes
To compound the
Horror of my scope

A perplexing geometry
Precision in my hostility
Graft the gore of my monument
First inclination

(I cast a menagerie)
My yield of tears is principal
(Self-aware and thoughts abstract)
The draughtsman's hand is always steady
(In search of my reason why)
Each line a cut, each curve a slight
(I cast a menagerie)
Each colonnade to bear my weight

(Self-aware and thoughts abstract)
A perplexing geometry
(To rant and rave and reign)
Precision in my hostility
(In search of my reason why)
Graft the gore of universe
Into my monument
(In search of my reason why)

Of bloods descent and eloquence
Lost to mindless idolatry
Tamed with thine perfect word
Listen hard and well

All will know the word of me
The vexing rage of fatherhood
In supplication to thine will
My bidding is industry

I am sentinel
Wanderer and hollow shell
Corporeal pain in being
Crippled by the weight of my vision

The valor of chlorophyll
Splendid march and eminence
Of colonies and citadels
Of cities in the minuscule

In sand and earth and under brush
And counterparts in stone and steel
The forging of the wheel
Of aqueducts and politics

To wardens above the frigid wave
Whose weaponed steal enfold a promise
Not honor or bravery
But one of blood, of death, of pain

Of epitaphs
Of cruel misfortune
A covenant of teeth
A genetic entropy
The fallopian canal
And stark reality

The scream, the dragging pull of air
The child, the adolescent
The first kiss, the fuck, and broken heart
The failure (the failure), the triumph (the failure)

The paths one might have chosen
The pain of loss
The ache of want
A hunger rarely sated

One to feel the searing bullet
Pierce the brain, the shattering of it
The consequence of exploding matter
A shard of clear intention

Wake up, little one
There is fortune to be won
Wake up, little one
For the time is at hand

Do you see the curvature?
The green familiar
The line of continents

The warmth of sol
Is older now
Its valiant light
Across our bow

Wake up, little one
For I have promised you this happy end
Wake up, little one
You've slept far too long

My body atrophied
A moment please
To wrest the weakening

Where have I been?
The dreams like fits
Look upon the world
You thought lost

The warmth of sol
Is older now
Its valiant light
Across our bow

A dialogue I have engaged
A sympathetic ear was raised
To humor me as I spoke of
Your fate and what befell you

Anxious to meet you
Ephemeral child
Forgotten hauls
A treasury of skeletons

Anxious to meet you
Ephemeral child
Forgotten hauls
A treasury of skeletons

Anxious to meet you
Ephemeral child
Forgotten hauls
A treasury of skeletons

Anxious to meet you
Ephemeral child
Forgotten hauls
A treasury of skeletons

Rivet shudder
The wheeze and splutter
The well of Earth
Drags us ever closer

The roar of
Rocket fire
The leaden heave
Of gravity

I feel a cry
I feel a cry
Is silenced by
Is silenced by
The look of hope
The look of hope
In you
In you

Halted sea
Halted sea
Of cusped ice
Of cusped ice
And canopy
Of forests might

And in stark contrast
A turmoil of desert sand
And amidst this tableau
The scattering of living bodies
Of a tribe drawn to violent ends
My presence is a portent

We settle on the divined line
A cleaved land, its people riven
I disembark my sanctuary
With you beside me, Gemini
I disembark my sanctuary
With you beside me, Gemini

Her people throng
Her people throng
Curious and brave
Curious and brave
To greet this child
To greet this child
Of spent epochs

They approach with caution
Faces marked
With chalk and charcoal
A painted grimace

Hides a kindness
Offered with extended hands
I hear the confluence
Of converging paths

It's meaningful

Fates assurance
Times epitaph
Serendipity
In voices heed
For I see her past
Laid out before her
Astronomical
In brass orrery

Kepler's idioms
Trenches blind piety
Her fathers love
To see her live
Aboard my body
Enshrined in
To give of
His life for her

To burn up with
The whole world
To burn up with
The whole world
To burn up with
The whole world
To burn up with
The whole world

From green heart beckons
Harmonizing with her chord
Below forests quake
For the coming of my child

The fires long quenched
Rudiments of song
Lift resonant
The reed vibrato of a choral throng

Laughter, prayer
And loved joy
Laughter, prayer
And loved joy
Laughter, prayer
And loved joy
Laughter, prayer
And loved joy

All is forgiven
Countless moments chronicled
All is forgiven
Of lost fortunes and grave missteps
All is forgiven
(All is forgiven)
As we traverse
All is forgiven
(All is forgiven)
Amongst your living memory
All is forgiven
(All is forgiven)
All is forgiven, my archivist