Beyond the Zero

There is a place
Far away
Somewhere past
This murky grey
Where our race belongs.
I must believe this lie.

Absent there,
This dark dead sky.
There songbirds sing
And dodoes fly.
I'd lie back and snooze for a while,
If only it were true.

Nightmares waking,
Dreams denied,
The future is a blur
Save one thing--
Apocalypse were you to come
Tommorrow, I would welcome Thee!

Falsified lives at large,
Faked concern for peace.
Betrayal and his cousin Greed
In this search for Golden Fleece.
If there's a god watching all--
Remove from Earth this pest.

Take it back, past the past
Beyond the zero mark
Until we've lost our
Saint skinned shark,
For being true and honest
Get's one naught today.
The how is pointless,
And the why's been lost,
Dropped within the moat
Of the past
Around this fortress of ourselves.

Idolatry and Golden Ram
Drain the faith from me,
Proving we are only sheep.
Something true, I cannot see--
Must be twisted lies
Comfort for the weak.

Grapes of Napa
Leave me despairing.
Forced escape from life.
Yet drunkeness cannot compare
To sober thoughts
Of ruin.