Defiance

I raise my hand

To ask why,

To question the oppression

In this world.

I raise my fist

In protest 

Against the wrongs 

In the world.

I raise my voice,

And speak, so that 

All will hear

Of the injustices

Of this world.

Knowledge

We wonder, 

We do not know, 

We think we know—

Secret-Keeper! 

How long will you deign

Not to give us counsel!—

But we do not. 

Alliterative, 

Allusive, 

Metaphorical… 

Too long it has been, 

We who are stricken by the past.

Dreams

Without strife,

What is life?

What sets us apart?

When it is our time to depart,

What impedes?

Do our actions matter;

They all recede

Into the depths of time.

When the memory is gone,

When the echoes fade,

Look not for what is no more,

But for the ripples that it made.

Where in the darkness is the light?

Where in the brightness is the night?

Where do light and shadows cease?

And in time both increase,

To lie down, blinded by the dawn.

In the beginning the end is made,

In darkness light is portrayed,

In war is peace allayed,

And in death, life is conveyed.

What was lost,

And what was gained?

What done,

And what refrained,

From doing?

From doing?

All was lost in the end,

It seems,

Like shattered hopes,

Or fractured dreams.

Duality

We are the dark, we are the light,

Even in the darkness, burning bright,

Even in the day we are the night;

We shine bright, 

We are the night

Again.

So we sing the song of death and life,

Sing the song of Pax and peace and strife,

We are the dark, we are the light.

Shadows we fight,

Light we put to flight.

We are the dark, we are the light,

Even in the day we are the night;

Even in the darkness, burning bright,

We wonder—

We wonder of our love.

So we sing the song of death and life,

Sing the song of Pax and peace and strife,

We are the dark, we are the light.

Space

We soar.

We are Seraphic, so we soar.

We fly high; we touch the sky.

We are the zenith.

We are the Perihelion, so we are the zenith.

We are the highest point, the peak, the apex. Ne plus ultra.

We rise.

We are Ascendant, so we rise.

We shoot for the heavens, the highest heights.

We are stars.

We are Celestial, so we are stars.

We shine bright to pierce the dark.

We burn.

We are Empyrean, so we burn.

We light the fires that bring the day.