I'm here to create a monster of light
a beacon of second chance
i shall liberate the incarcerated
i shall plant the flag of liberators
i shall move your heart.

Yes i shall show you a monster of light
something that comes out
of the words of lost love letters
of the diamond ring that no longer shine in dresser drawers
of yesterdays spent with her heat on your heat
of broken hearts so broken you leave a life with no life to enter into
from the streets you wandered with no known places to go
where you walk with the ghosts in the outskirt places no one loves anymore
of lonely days when the ghosts you friended in the forgotten places have died again.
and you are alone with just yourself and the wilderness of a lost world
The realest sounds in the night

Can i tell you an important secret?

no man is ever truly alone
if he holds one hope close to his very center
holds that hope like his little daughter
like he did his mother
as he did on a cold night with his closest lover
put that hope in the deepest reaches of your heart,
a place so deep that you worry it can never make it out
of the lightless cave
because sometimes you call to it like your lost dog
and there is nothing but distant trains and whipping wind
there is no bark for you to hear.

but that thing is not gone
it's just deep inside the dark night
and one day it will come to the light
i shall liberate the jailed
i shall plant the flag of liberators
i shall move your heart.

i shall liberate the barred
i shall plant the flag of liberators
i shall move your heart.

from the second hands you climb through
you have been left nothing but the rags
and fretted riches of the dead and forgotten
you shall wear the shoes of men who had sweat
hours days months years in the leather
which was stolen from the back of a beast
who toiled for years in the weather
to grow thick hide
your strength is passed through the mystic
the very dust all around you
holds loving people just like you

you are not the only ghost soldier depressing the ground
your paralyzed legs they will never walk again
but you shall find a way with your heart
to go to the places of light


you are closer every day to the light of the distant
star
The distant star where your new love waits
let the light grow with patience
look up at the night sky
and know with complete certainty
that you are one day closer
to your dream come true.




© Edward Storm