A thousand stone, more to be sure
built those fine steps to the angelic perch
But the masons paid for that diabolic slur

And still man is none too smart, it would seem
Hubris is still the drink of the day -
Two for one - buy it now super sized - how obscene.

The promise of immortality
Just 23 steps down the spirling stair
Is a gift too tempting for the majority

Motion

Another million thoughts appear
hitting like a murder of kamikaze planes
forged by the diabolic and divine, so dear, so dear

Since the dawn of time, that once upon a time
The dance, the fight, the misteps, the flight
It could have been so sublime, so sublime

By accepting sloth's sleepy kiss a lifetime is missed
And with groggy knowing all but one is cursed
The hunger for loss overwhelms, that kiss, that kiss

Can't Refrain

The strumming of chords
Paints a song of pefect love
But the painting is smeared with colors in discord

It’s not the clattering of cups and plates
Or the blathering of neophytes -
Those aspiring prophets cursing the fates

They, one in all, distract
Like melting icebergs, the war and the last political whore
That bubble gum yimmer-yammer keeps my sanity intact

I admit I’m so damn vain in my pain
A thirty something who hates ground hog day
But I won’t refrain from re-playing that silly game