Austere

Black silhouette upon a darkened azure scenery. Cold hand receives this battered stone. This battered stone... Twilight caress the windswept features Unyielding shadow blacker still Its shadow blacker...

Crashing waves of oppression Engulf me in never-ending ways But I still cannot rid myself of this obsession Which takes over my numbered days So wrap this bleak heart In your terror-filled claws Never...

Austere as some neo-con nightmare, armed to the teeth. A Buddhist soaked in gasoline burns in the streets. Tired of the pride of the traditionally minded. Sick of the arrogance of the pragmatic left...