Time & Tranquility

IMAGINE

Now my life seems like it’s in the past

Reborn to be reburied

The wind curls the winter up from the sea

For the warmth to perish

In the storm we sing and sway

Till the clouds are covered in dust

We swim through our very own sea

To see the land that we have created

And the darkness falls and blankets our eyes

We can’t see, but it doesn’t matter

A spark shines light into our imaginations

We communicate through our thoughts

What hasn’t happened seems like a memory

That lives inside our dreams

Never been spoken of

But feels like a burning fire

Your eyes like a picture of the moon

As your heart warms the world we see

Travelling through time

Looking back on our misfortunes

Now both worlds will watch

As we emerge together

Not a simple dark feeling

To shade over our minds

Till we sleep I will not forget

About this dream lost in a facade

Only we will understand

What will lie beneath our soil 

You crawl in a cave like a shy baby

Hiding smiles and those cold eyes

Singing in a storm where no one hears you

Going unnoticed with that pretty face

All your words have been unsaid

But we remember them from a dream

And we sit around the table

Competing for your glance

You sit there so gloomy

With no smile on your face

Colonising complex locations

You’re the first to reach the skies

Cutting through our signals

Beating us all to space

We’ve lost again, trailing your advance

We stand back at home with our eyes above

At the flashing colours of the night

And we see you sputnik dancing amongst the stars

Oh you seem so artificial

As you spy on the world

With all your enemies one step behind you

Calling on the countdown

She takes our pictures

With the prints in her hands

That smile so far and rare

It only lasts for seconds

She leaves the world tainted

On arrival a tail of life

Fixated on what we can’t comprehend

Her power a painted barrier

In our minds we fight each other

Contestants competing to lose

None of us can win

We are just a thorn in her side

She’s nothing when she’s something

Her sighs heard across the globe

The audience will sit to obey her command

You sail in the darkness

We can only see you on earth

As you fly above us

Looking at the world’s faults

We cry when you’re gone

We know you can’t see us

You complete your orbit

And come visit us when you like

We’ll be waiting sputnik 

THE SMELL OF UNWANTED CHANGE

The time of day has come

Now the people spark up their fires

The sunset can’t decide whether to be pink or orange

And it’s calm, and peaceful, and the trees sway silently

All the chatter of people ringing in my ears and it brings me happiness

The vast frontier is so sweet, and colourful, and happy

It smiles for us, and we smile back to the land

The buffalos watch over us, our sacred creatures smile

The smell of our food gets stronger by the minute

As it spins over the flashing fire

In the moonlight, my eyelids become heavy

A thousand stars glow

I could die here and give my body back to the earth

And I would be content, with the life I have led

My last glimpse of happiness was the people falling asleep

And the fires still raging throughout the camp

As the first strobe of morning light shines on my face

I instantly smell a change, something I can’t understand

It’s a smell of unwanted change

Something that strikes fear throughout my body

In a quick second, I charge from the ground and stride uphill

Peering over as far as I can see

I see some dark smoke that smells of death

There’s an occasional loud bang that frightens me and sends me off my feet

Men, with some strange item in their arms come raging up the hill

I don’t think twice before I bolt down the hill

I may not know their intentions, but I know what an angry group of people looks like

I try to get my people to Wake Up! By screaming my lungs out

As I try to explain the situation, the people stare in disbelief

But I’m too late, those men come crashing down the hill at doubled speed

With their items pointed at us and releasing something I can’t comprehend

My people fall, and scream, and cry, and die

My people try to defend by throwing our tomahawks at them

But their items are to advanced for us

I run, and run, till I find a big tree, I start to climb it

I perch myself on the highest branch

I knew the earth could save me

I make no movement, no sound

I just watch the devastation that has come about in a matter of two minutes

Two hours later, the people are throwing my people into a ditch

I look around and notice a group, with their items killing our buffalo

I don’t know who these people are

But I don’t like them, or this smell of change

All of a sudden, my earth has given me this power

I learn I’m not content to give my body to the earth yet

But it’s given a piece of itself

To help me beat this unwanted change