Walk a tightrope carefully Don’t be bold Feel the wire beneath your feet Don’t lose control Dance between the bullets of life and death Chance the danger — a whispered breath Adrenaline rise — See it in your eyes Experience the heat Of inevitable defeat It’s a fine line Between being a hero And being a memory Be courageous Don’t be blind Take responsibility Foolishness will take you to a lonely time When they remember you as a hero who crossed the line Survival is a fancy name For staying alive It’s important to know Just when to take a dive There’s no need to prove yourself to everyone Always…

(part 1 of Survival) I The Preparation The mote is filled And the drawbridge tight — Their weapons are their tools For survival For the Guardians of the fortress Prepare to defend themselves Against a hungry pack Of wolves The clouds come rolling in Death watches with a grin… Fear and Courage Partners in a lonely quest for more Their strategy is fate Live by the sword, die by the sword II The Empire The Imperial leaders ponder A hopeless way around it Their tyranny’s caught up with Them at last Power wasn’t everything They always wanted more So now their flags flutter at half-mast The rebels flow over the…

Part 1 Greater than infinity Larger than the sky Within the hardened hearts of steel The feeling you can’t hide Conscious of those staring eyes Looking in from the dark Makes your hair stand up on end As the fear you have sets in Fear’s part of the darkness That keeps you on your toes The part of the darkness The darkness you don’t know Set the stage for imagination As you encounter new sensations With widened eyes and much demise You have unseen relations Beyond the realms of sanity And blind courageous acts Heartbeat quickened in an effort to Discern fiction from fact… Part 2 Look into the eyes…

Phantom lights Distorted nights Fighting the dream beyond Shades of white Transposed delight Fading on and on and on… Underneath the darkness Parallel with time In between time — Ever-expanding Beyond reason Beyond time Denying physical reason Confusing emotional seasons It can take you for a spin And you won’t know where you’ve been Mind in reverse Mind imprisoned Alternate universe Constant sea Galactic breeze Fighting the storm ahead Fade to black Off the beaten track Sailing on and on and on… Caught in the darkness Exposed to the light In between light Ever-confined In time Beyond time We imagine what it’s like To be somewhere else When we don’t…

(part 2 of Survival) Tomorrow’s soldier In the evening of a coming day Fighting for freedom He knows there’s got to be a better way But he knows he’s got to get away But there’s nowhere to run Nowhere to hide Nowhere to be afraid No time for fun No time for pride On the edge of the blade It’s burning inside him He knows he’s got to stop and fight But on this cold night Survival means flight That’s the best thing for Tomorrow’s Knight Cold-blooded killers Obeying orders to hunt him down But in their hearts There was something that they had found They couldn’t kill him They…

1 Life and Death Share the same breath Of each succeeding day Courage and fears Smiles and tears Molded from similar clay Reality Lost in tranquility Infinity Patience may die With temper increased But spirits will fly When the shame is released The Balance of the Universe Keeps everything in place Maintains a common space And preserves the unity At a steadfast, even pace 2 To love or hate Freewill or fate Or just some Wizard’s scheme One and all Fly and fall In a silent, forgotten dream Action Promotes a reaction Satisfaction The heart and mind Will unite finally As the ground and the sky Drown in the sea…

In the light of the moon He watches me With distant eyes I know who he is But I can’t see his face He needs no disguise The stranger calls to me And says I must go with him But I tell him he’ll just have to wait Not yet shall I give in “There are some things that I must do Before I travel with you…” I tried to explain That I wasn’t through But all he said Was, “Life is too short to Do what you can To get ahead.” The stranger calls to me But this time I go along I have no fear that he is…

Everything hangs deathly by the wire Waiting for a burst of wind to blow it from its lair And send it tumbling out into an anxious air Trembling at the thought of disturbance Waiting for peace to rear its ugly head On the edge — With just enough courage to stay there The fear of falling keeps it all in place Letting go leads straight to uncertainty Holding on leads straight to insanity On the cutting edge of a sharpened blade is the place to be To insure the heightened levels of anxiety Any sudden move can cost you All around us time stands still Looking for a reason to…

He walks with pride this gallant man His boots are stained with blood He leaves behind with every step The cries of pain and death He has a job that he does well With sorrow he succeeds But goes on to light again The flame that melts his soul His sword’s a very mighty brush Used to paint things red With this he paints the homicides Which occur without much thought He rides a quite majestic steed Which seems not to protest The fact that he will gallop on To fall amongst the weeds Together they will scale cliffs And walk along each shore To play a game with other…

A wise old man from another age Told me of passion, fear and rage He gave advice, I lent my ear In my head he seems so near It all seems so long ago To me his life he did bestow Given this I must survive To keep alive his soul mind Wise old man Where are you now Wise old man Don’t let me down I know you’re here Rise up from the sands Come help me please My dear old man This wise old man has taught me well Upon his wisdom I will dwell I dropped my weapons — sheath and sword To mend my Heart and…