Village of Ice

Beyond These Walls

Suzanne

In a Fugue

Hands of Red Clay

The Mentor

A Ladder Will Reach You

The Quintessential Miscreant

Almost a Man in the Hood

Technobank

Restlessness

No Such Thing

An Uneasy Recovery

The Light of Day

Beyond These Walls

This strange, new world has me abounded by fear
not sure where I stand...
unsure when I may fall.
The aggression builds boundlessly
until the anger lets loose.
And when it's over, when I reflect on the action
when I'm all alone in my own little world

I weep, yes I weep, like an angel.

Since when do actions speak more loudly than words?
Wasn't Jesus' words
just as powerful as his acts?
[I keep him in my pocket, like a slug]
And when I'm sure that I can�t stand
on my own two feet
I reach for him

and weep, yes I weep, lika an angel

Try to believe that you're no different
than you were at the age of three
and you�re fooling yourself.
Try to believe you�ve never pulled the trigger
and you're fooling yourself.

White concrete and silver steel
has never had the same meaning until now.
Until now had I ever associated emotion
with such words.
They have not the same meaning
as they do now.

Copyright, 1996, by J. Matthew Waters
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