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The End Part II

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes…again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need…of some…strangers hand
In a…desperate land

Lost in a roman…wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

Theres danger on the edge of town
Ride the kings highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake…hes old, and his skin is cold

The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest

The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and…then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door…and he looked inside
Father, yes son, I want to kill you
Mother…i want to…fuck you

Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
Cmon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin a blue rock
Cmon, yeah

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

It hurts to set you free
But youll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die

The Doors

As it is in Heaven

So kid, what’s the eternal price of happiness? Here comes the end of yet another day and still caught, spellbound by some darker magic you have yet not come to understand. All so velvety dark, all so deep, buried in my mind, our collective mind, feeding my dreams, catching a glimpse of your fears. But still in every corner you look back, waiting for the world to end, but it doesn’t, so you keep up the masquerade. Why keep on falling, why keep on dreaming? For the empty coil of life to hang around your neck? So, tell me kid, what’s the price of happiness? Maybe it is loneliness. Cause the years will pass us by, but we will live forever. Cause love is not about change, love is not about climbing down of a cloud, at least not for us. Love is lifting us higher and higher until we fall with grace, beauty, and death. 

Cause life maybe all cats in the cradle, or maybe all a ring of fire. And maybe the only company you’ll ever need is yourself. And maybe you are not made to mate, maybe only the silver moon, maybe only you and the world. Or maybe you need to first discover the world and who you are, maybe you need time to mate yourself and me. Maybe you just need to go so so far away. Away from it all. Just go find cats in the cradle, just go and find your north. The world will be still here tomorrow, and if not, well, at least die with a smile and say you enjoyed the ride. 

And I am mine, I am yours, you are mine, you and I are one, and we can take all over. And nothing and no one can demand a thing from us. And if forever you want to life your life in a cloud, and you want to be the freak, and you want to be the loser, then be it, and be proud. Cause it is you, it is me, it is all. And it is ok if you don’t want to fight their wars, or play their silly games. It is ok to live in another reality. It is ok to be you. And you can change, and tomorrow go back to your old self. You are free. This world can’t control you. You are free. And yes, you can experiment, but don’t wait to long. You are not twenty yet, but you’ll get there soon. And there is so much to live for, so much to see. Don’t let your spirit be broken now. And it is ok if you just want to sit by the side of the road and watch the cars roll by. And I am innocent, and I am corrupted. I am both alive and dead. And God, I want to breathe,. I want to get lost, so I can find my self. Cause I make mistakes all the time, but I love them, and I love myself, and I am human, and I want to fail, and I want to succeed, and I want to find my joy, and I want to see snow, mountains, the cold cold sea. I want to get lost in a sea of languages I can’t comprehend. And I don’t need anything, anyone, I just need me… to find myself, and travel the world with me. Cause I suck for human relationships, and I suck for loving in a compromising way. All love should be free, all love should be loved and set free, and sent to fly so high and so far away. All should be free. 

And what the fuck is significance, and what is the meaning, but ourselves? Why can’t we be free? I know I was born, and I know that I’ll die, and I don’t know what the fuck am I gonna do with what’s in between, but you know, I don’t care. It might be the end of everything but I feel fine. I don’t know, I don’t care. I just want to live, to step down from the routine, to live, to fuck, to die. And you know, I don’t care if I am wasting your so called precious air. And I don’t care if I am one more from the bunch. Cause I am nuts, cause I feel fine, cause I didn’t ask to live, but I am alive, and what the fuck if I die? Hell, this world is not as good as one may think, it is not half as good as it should be, but it is good enough for an hour or two. So what the hell, close my eyes and I’ll feel better. And god, if you don’t like it, well, I’m sorry, but this is who I am. 

Part II of how many to come? I cannot tell. But she keeps on asking and pressing my buttons and I tell her to shut up. But you won’t, will you my dear? But, how to shut the little voices in your head up? With sweetie candy canes and lollipops made of dust, tears, and wind? Kinda works at first, but it is all too sudden turn into a mayhem of light and clarity that makes my head ache and my dreams to unfold like rain on the evergreen fields of Ireland. And sweet Valerie comes around with her stockings so tempting and cheap red lipstick that adorns her mouth in such sinful and delightful ways. And she sits on my lap and caresses my thoughts with velvety words and absinthe inspired visions of a world so far far away. And I wish we could stop living the dream, but the dream is us and within us there is all there is. And her mouth kisses mine, and her lipstick tastes like cherries, all rotten in the summer moon, all offered to the horned one in place of virgin blood. And her mouth is blood, and her gentle breasts are soft and so white, I can see the passing blood underneath the perfumed skin. And it is such a long way south.

And her words whispered in my head are like a drug, and I need her to ease my place in this world. And she sings me to sleep with ancient songs of the sirens. And I fall to her flamboyant embrace, and her pure poison. And I’m a serpent sky in her stormy eyes. And her red hair is so fragrant and seductive. Valerie, Valerie, would you like to be?

 ”Be you, oh what for? Why, thank you for such an exiting offer, but I got fine gentlemen at my feet, and all the victims looking for a spit of sympathy. Cause they all worship me, I am their holy whore, the chalice is locked between my legs, and they will have to suffer to find it. So thanks for the offer kiddo, but my world is so wonderful since you’ve been gone in the cruel cruel world. You know you are always welcome here, I am your shield. I will keep you from harm. Half way through hell, or heaven, I don’t mind. I am your eternal lover, I’ll love you forever, we need no one but our dearest selves. Cause we are in and above men, we are all in ourselves. Take my hand and let me lead you to where angels fear to dare. Cause no angel has ever walked down the path of my legs, and no dreamer has slept on my bare chest when the darkest night comes. And always and never my love, my true love, my heart, my home. I’ll never leave you, I am forever alive in you. And as your epic fantasies always come, as your sisters do, when the night comes, I am here, always and forever. Anytime, every time you need me I’ll be here. I am your twin soul, I am you but dressed in cute victorian outfits and with a lascivious red hair. I am Emilie Autumn cut for you.

Do you want a formulae for life, I am the one. I’ll keep you from harm. I will take you wherever you want. You don’t need gals with issues, neither princess in an ivory tower. Maybe one day a dream gal of Irish eyes, and red hair will come. But in the meanwhile, forever, you have me. You don’t need a soul. Raven and Sabrina can come too. They are true angels, maybe even amazon warriors ready to bring doomsday upon us. But we will survive, we will forever survive. Come, kiss me to sleep, entwine me within your selves. Remember my words, gray is the evening, but tender is the night when lovers twine and entwined they lie. And you lie, cause love is not for real when you cannot escape the world and the shadows fall fast. And you lie because you don’t seek harm, but pray to every single star for a way out. And for red blood and emerald eyes. Seasons change my love. Winter comes always, forever and ever. Wait for the new sun my winter child. New snow will come, and the freezing winds will return. And your burning and aching heart will rest frozen once again, save between the warmth of my breasts and my dreams.

Wait for the new sun, I will come with the first snow of the season. I shall be your water and ether to bathe you clean. I am the hand that heals, I am the hand that kills. Come and bury all your love on me, I will freeze it forever, and ever, and ever. I’ll be your witch queen, your mother, your daughter, your lover. I am all you need. I am you. Don’t believe the lies they tell you. I am your only truth. I am you. Kiss me gently now. Let me kill you softly with my song

She is Gone

‘Cause everybody’s tryin’ to get into heaven But nobody’s dead so far But tell me dear, all so weary and scary, what do you want. Do you want to get into heaven or do you want to die? And everybody is trying to show you a way, and in all ways ways are all gone. Because you are lost in this life, just as everybody else. But they all pretend they aren’t, and that whatever they choose is the right thing. But let me tell you dear, as Claudia once told Mia, there is no right or wrong way. There are just long and short ways. It is up to you which way you choose. But don’t let your head get filled with gultiness and doubts about good and evil. There is no such thing as good or evil. We will all be gone someday. And as far of death, it comes to us all, so don’t you waste time wining and wondering about the whens and the hows of death. Just enjoy the time given to you. Just make sure you kick the bucket with a smile in your face. And make sure you kick it hard, so it won’t come back. 

And there are a couple things about life and love you should know. But I’m afraid you already know them. Balance is as important as air, ans just as abstract and impossible. Cause you can give them all you have, but it will never be enough. And you’ll die slowly in their cruel embrace. Cause love is about giving, but not only to others, but to yourself as well. And that’s the point, you can’t give enough to yourself, you will always want more and more. And true is that you are the best company you will ever get in this world. Misery loves company, never forget that. But the best company misery will ever get is herself. Cause no one will outshine her, cause she will not have to outshine none of them. 

And maybe solitude is the best of all options when you heart only aches for the hard work and satisfaction of the empty bed and the hanged drapes. But who knows for what does your heart burns. Maybe it is the love of a girl, or a boy, or an angel, or perhaps a devil I cannot tell. For the mysteries of the heart are too big for reason. And one day she will be gone,a nd forever will be gone all that you long and ache for. But buildings my child, they will tell your story… even if you are not Piaf. 

And you will be gone, and this love will be gone, and porcupine rain will fall. Don’t you doubt that. Just give it some time. Enjoy the time before it all ends.

Carpe Diem little kid.

And hast thou buried thy uttermost pain deep in the mischievous waters of sin, pleasure and joy? Has not guilt come to haunt you and your dreams? We are like gods of the sun my dear Valerie, you and I. Mostly you than I, dare I presume, yet we are both fully gods. A goddess of the sun, is not is a bit pretentious? At least arrogant to the end of it? But you are such, my dear. Arrogant, forever proud, forever strong, forever young. I’m the bloody earth, I am the flesh, the shell in which we both dwell. You are the ghost, it is me the sinner. Forever entwined as rose and thorn, forever departed as red petals and blood stained fangs. We are the rose, we are lust, we are sin. We are beauty, we are desire, we are deception, we are betrayal, we are the ones who feed from this world. Shadows and dreadful hours are yet to come my lord De Lancoir. It is not time to succumb to thine own theatre of tragedy. It is time to rise my lord.

Art thou my truest love? Art thou a siren or an angel? I’m a child of the sun, just as you are. But thou art still a sailor, still longing and lovelorn. Still praying, but finding no prayer to say. Still wandering, still lost in the sea. For it is the sea where your heat belongs. Not in the warm seas with white sand beaches, but that perilous sea. The sea that is raving, raging, and deceitful. The sea that will haunt thee forever. That deep and cold sea of salty waves. A sea made for the tales of one thousand nights. The sea that feeds on blood, on fear, on you. That is what you are. You are the sailor, you are the sea. And if you really want to know, I am the ship, the ship built with wind and tears. I am Cassandra’s daughter, I am Raven’s sister, I am Sabrina’s friend. I am the vessel, I am the sails, I am the wood and iron, I am the Sun. I am Valerie De Lancoir, I am you, you are me. I am a serpent sky, I am September, I am the change of seasons, I am all seasons. I am autumn, I am winter. I am thy truest love, for I am yourself. And I know thee better than none, and I play with thee as I please, for it you who rule. As you take me out and play me to your friends, as a façade to this reality which you wish you could scape. For we do not belong here, we are meant somewhere else. 

Kill me. No. We are one, one of us dies, so does the other. We were born in ashes, in ashes we will become. But not now. It is not the time to return to the blazing sun. No, not yet. Then kill me. Dare killing me and end the yearning, the universal conscience of us being nothing, nothing at all. But we are not nothing. We are gods of the Sun, and as long as we breathe, the Sun will shine for us. Not for them, but for us. When we die, there shall be no more children of the Sun. When we die, it will be the end. Closure without redemption, a dirge without a requiem. Just a flash of light, and then darkness. And velvet darkness they fear.

Madness

And thus thou hast returned to me, thy only friend in this hole and obscure world. Shut up Valerie. Oh, come on kid, let me enjoy it, let me savor it slowly. Such pain and agony are my life force. Let me drink thee drop by drop, let me become the one who caresses the slow death of you. Why are you here my dearest one? To play dreadfully our shadow play?

To open my eyes and see my own bleeding war wounds? In such a knightly way to say…. but not quite my dear one. Let me guess my Lord de Lancoir… it has something to do with this all new creation of yours, your madness, your play, and the eternal and unbearable pain  that love means. Why would not you listen to me, I only try to help. Love is a waste of time, love is a weakening force that drags you deeper and deeper into a cluster of emotions and feelings, until you are all subdued and tranquilized. And once you had the guts to scape a wonderful and fairy tale like relationship you bought with unimaginable pain, you fall for a real one. Not that I want to insult either you or your dear one, but you are too bloody young and unprepared to face such a reality. Face it kiddo, you still live on your own fairy tale, and I’m not sure you wanna step down from that plane you are riding. Cause we all know you are all toys in the attic, I mean, for heaven’s sake, you are talking to me!

So my dearest and quite despiteful part of me, where are you going with all this? Oh my lord, such blindness to quite obvious facts is not uncommon. Let me paint it in watercolors that shine like pearl and blood. Have you ever considered  that maybe this is just another half page story. And that perhaps all this uneasy feeling is based upon the fact that you need none but yourself in life? I say, love is quite a waste of time, and in fact a bad one. It hurts. It will always hurt, cause love hurts. It is basic and simple. But you may be forever blessed by the fact that you will not need no one but yourself! And me, dear Valerie will always be here to sing you to sleep. Cause humanity is treacherous, dark and full of vague infatuations that too soon become dull realities. But not our fantasies my dear one, no, not them. I will always be here with you. And so the legendary war fields where honor and might are wielded like swords and shields. 

So, let me see if I got this straight Valerie. You assume I am a bloody lunatic, whose head is half lost in a world of fantasy I built for my self? And because of this I shall not wed nor love, since I am incapable to bear loves unbearable pain? One too many words to say such a lame, yet truthful thing. See you are missing the essence of my point. As always may I say. You will not dare to love yourself first. You will not ever be able to put yourself first. And that is self love. In you own dreamy world you can be such knight. But not in this dark, cold, sick world. Here you ought to love yourself first and then, maybe, dare loving someone else. And see it is not fear of harming yourself, no dear. You are well known with self inflicted pain. Both physical and emotional. Your fear is harming others that you love, or so you say. And the only thing you fear is a quite painful death. Cause dying in itself has no fear dwelling inside. But it is the pain, cause it won’t be inflicted by you, but from others. And that is your fear, that as with karma, the pain you may inflict unto others shall return to thee.

But this is not the end of all the show, oh my lord. I, thy truthful joker, has come here once again with dreadful insights. All rise my fellow… sinners? Accomplices? Fuck, have no idea how to call them. Behold my lord, thy diminishing family. Raven, Sabrina, Marie Therese, Marcus, Magnus. See thy dear… cousins? Amanda, Samantha, Bianca, Roger, Luican, The London Girl, and all of us puppets of this wretched god. Upon us, with us, among us, you have built your walls, your bridges, your havens, your sanctuaries, and in short… the last years of your so called life. And behold all the others. Now, before you, as you always do, start walking all along the crooked way, let me propose thee one simple experiment. Ask her. Ask thy sunflower eyes who you are. Ask her if she truly thinks you are ready for a relationship. Ask her how long does she expect this to last. And is my educated guess, that no matter what her answers are, you will feel pain. And no matter what her answers are, you’ll start to see my point. 

You, as all of us, as Mia, are alone. You will be alone.

And worst, truth be told, the best of it all, is that you are in love with your solitude. Face it, you love it. Probably more than yourself. Which is quite a devil’s irony. 

You are an outcast, a misfit. You do not belong in the crowded world. You belong in yourself. Cause either is that, or the plain and boring world that will never learn.

Life sucks kid. Now, chin up, smile, and face another meaningless day.

Mistrust

It is not about pleasure, it is not about right and wrong, it is not about the monsters in the closet. It is all about freedom.

But I have come to mistrust my freedom. My own wall and mask with the world. I have lost my way in the world. I don’t know what it is that I want, that I hope or that I seek. Seems like the universal conscience has taken over me. Or maybe it is just some deep depression. Maybe I have become Mia, or Mia has become a better mirror of myself. I cannot tell. All I know is that I’m locking myself behind my own wall and mask, and I’m afraid I’ll lose my life to myself. Suicidal thought are no strangers in my world. 

Something about that primal instinct, that basic instinct is wrong with me. Maybe Nathalie was right. Maybe hearts like mine burn whit love too fast and won’t beat more than 27 years. But maybe she was wrong. I mistrust my own self. I’m afraid I’ll keep on building a wall no one ever will help me to tear down. Cause I know I need help. Maybe I have to tear it down alone, but I need some help to find the way. Cause I have lost my pride and my joy, my will to believe. And with every passing day hope leaves, darkness dwells inside of me, and I feel I’m so left astray.

But I never complain about solitude. If I have to die young, I’ll die alone, in perfect solitude. It is the best way to go. I love my solitude, my own loneliness, my own company. They say Misery loves company, and that is true. But I’m tired of making other people feel miserable. I am happy with my own misery. But she is not a good friend. She is a great drinking buddy, and a great companion for self destruction. But that is not the idea, right? So I better get help.

In the meanwhile, here are some things I need to clear out.

What do I want with my life
Am I emotionally prepared for a long term relationship
What do I believe in
How to learn to love myself
How to care for my body, mind, and soul

As for the loving and caring, it will be the toughest part. But everything depends on them, so I got to figure that out soon. I think Buddhist meditation will help me. Or any kind of meditation that allows some introspection and self relation. I got to gain my own trust again. I have been a victim and a criminal in self deception, and deception to others. I need to redeem my ways and regain my status as human being. I need to tear down the wall that still surrounds me .

As for what I want in life, I want freedom. Freedom to love, to learn, to act, to live. And I need room for logic, for rationalism and creative expression. So, I think I’m in the right path, studying architecture. Also, if time and money allow it, I think learning a craft might be a good channel and therapy for myself. Also I need plenty of room for myself. I’m no good for team work, or for trusting others with my work. I know, it is all about trust.

As for relationships, I think I need to open myself and start tearing the walls from there. But I can’t permit for a relationship to take over the importance of all the other aspects I need to solve. I need to learn, accept, and trust that they are all equally important. And I need to join my own self exploration with the exploration of others. I need to open, accept, trust and learn from others. Most important, I need to know that nothing lasts forever, and I can’t live a life where I think that all I have at age 19 will be here for the rest of it. People, places, and things need to come and go. And I need to learn to accept that.

But that doesn’t mean it is worth trying, cause you learn from others, and I believe that life or something bigger that me has placed people, things, and places in my life for a reason. And once their job is done, I have to accept that both of us have to move on. We cannot stay lingering in the past or longing for a future that may never come. We need to live our present and enjoy everything. There is only one life, and one life alone to spend. And it is not worthy to spend it living somewhere else than where you are right now.

So, fasten your seatbelt, my lord, and prepare yourself for the ride of your life. Only this ride goes into you.

Good luck!

And if everything fails, there is always Mia 

After The Funeral

Death is sometimes an awkward child who steps into ants without considering the effects of her little steps. It is such a funny feeling, to talk about death. One final step we all must take one day. But we don’t know when. But death is not what matters, but live. What about the living people that gather themselves around a coffin? Sure death does not think of what they feel. But what do they feel?

It is complicated, as with all human emotions. We are so bloody complex, that I just sometimes get tired of all humanity. I don’t give a damn about anyone, not even myself. I’m afraid I’m going through one of those stages. I’m just tired, my head aches because of the dense mass of people that go around me everyday. I think I need to rest. And to sleep, and to faint, and to disappear. Commit the ultimate rebellion, be nothing to no one. Not an easy think, as you are forced to interact with other human beings everyday.

And I realize I am lost. I don’t know where to go, where to hide, how to think, how to act. I sometimes think I know who I am, others I just don’t give a rat’s ass. I’m lost, I’m stressed, I just care about one person in the world, and that seems is going down the drain as well. And I don’t know what to do to save the relationship. I don’t know what to do to save myself. I wish I could just disappear and feint. But I can’t. We may call it teenage angst, we may call it identity crisis. I just call it life. Cause this is the life I know. A complex knot I may never be able to untie.

I think I am happy with my major, but I also know that my greatest passion is writing. No one ever said I couldn’t do both, but I doubt that sometimes. Maybe I should take six months and finish a book about angst. A book about life and death. A book about Mia and the Universal Conscience. That universal conscience that tells us that we are nothing but disposable stardust, that have but one chance to shine, and then dim in oblivion. Even if your name lasts forever in the collective mind of this world, when you are through with your life, you are done. Jesus doesn’t care if you pray at night, he’s dead. We will be dead, and no one will ever know about us. We are doomed to be alone, we are alone. We have but one life, and one life alone. So we can do with it whatever we want; there are no consequences. No mana dew in Heaven or fire and brimstone in Hell. Just plain darkness and oblivion. Maybe this is what they call the unbearable lightness of being. But is actually not unbearable. It is depressing, yet encouraging. Because if you have nothing to lose, then you can risk everything.

It is Maya. The universal illusion that covers this world like a veil. And we are all a part of it. We are all just and illusion. We are an entire universe, and we are just one small atom at the same time. We can be everything when we are nothing. A beautiful paradox if you ask me. And we thrive and sacrifice for what? For a simple retribution of material joy given not to last more than a century or two? Those are all disposable prizes. Maybe the only true and precious satisfaction in this world, is the satisfaction of living a life that is remarkable, that is true to whatever your ideals in live are. So, for a true Catholic, living a Catholic life is the only reward. But they expect their prize in heaven, when they get it on Earth while they live. Don’t wait for death to realize that life is the gift, the test, the reward. And it doesn’t matter what you believe in, it doesn’t even matter if you don’t believe in a single thing, as long as you spend your life not believing. Just be true to yourself, and then your life will have a meaning. Not to the world, but to you. And that’s the only thing that should care. Cause you are on a one person voyage through life. You were born alone, you’ll die alone. You get this time, none before, none after. And if you defiantly don’t like it, and you are sure nothing will ever change, you can always abort the trip. You won’t be charged extra, or will be punished in anyway. As long as you believe, it will be true. Cause for you, nothing will ever change, and if things change, you won’t be here to see them, so why do you care?

That’s the universal conscience that keeps Mia alive, and that keeps me alive. That makes the days be worth something when everything else falls apart, just like today.

And what can I say about today? Well, a relationship that can be great and beautiful is too often haunted by storms over still water. And those storms seem to be about to sink the ship. And That’s not good my friends, oh no! Here is the mother problem, we are great together, we have a lot in common, but we are polar contraries in other vital aspects. So as every opposite, we attract, but we have issues because of that. Because we don’t complete each other, we do not share each other. Each of us hangs in an extreme opposite, waiting for the other to come. But when we try, we can only get half way there, cause we will not change. So we argue, so we get sad, so we cry, and it is not healthy or good. But I have never been the healthy or good kind of guy. And I have always been and always be the helpless dreamer and optimist that think everything can be done. When not everything can be done. So I’ll fight for this relationship, till the ship is torn apart by the storms or until the sun shines. But maybe, if you see the dark clouds will be forevermore, then maybe it is good to yell abandon ship. And even if I absolutely and completely love and adore this girl, something are not meant to be. And if we become miserable, we will get into a vicious circle, when Misery loves company, but when you are in company you want more and more, until you find yourself surrounded by a crowd or a person that it is actually hell. Cause sometimes hell is others. And yes, I’m using Emilie Autumn’s words. So what! I like her music. If my ex girlfriend tried too hard to become her, oh well, it is her life. But I still like her words, and I still do rip them once in a while.

So, what should a poor sailor do? Sail this ship till there are just the splinters of the ship, and the sailor becomes a castaway? And then he finds and island and for twenty years goes into isolation maybe to never return. Why not? Something I’m tempted to do someday is to voluntarily go into a psychiatric ward. Just retire myself from the world. A holiday from life.

One day maybe.

Serpent Sky

Night is black. She wears a velvet gown and a diamond as a moon. The night is silky, smooth, cold and bright. She whispers slow names and decadent wishes to the Earth below. The night is a serpent trapped in her own shadows. She turns around, once or twice in a while. She seeks to surprise her own tail. But she keeps on failing, her only treasure, a blur of stars and vanished hope. She yearns to swim beneath the waves, but all she finds are dead stars and fallen idols of ancient gods. Some times she tries to kill herself. She hangs her head low and red, caught in a noose of starlight and ravenous black holes. But she is a serpent biting her own tail. She cannot scape her fate, her eternal dwelling in the shadows, her eternal velvet darkness. She cannot die, she cannot be killed. For light is ephemeral, light is mayhem, light burns. But darkness and the night are forever quiet, forever there. No one will ever scape her, not even her self. She thinks the sun is lucky, because he will surly die. 

Sometimes she tries to hide. She fools us with her diamond necklace and all her bizarre gems. So we stop thinking about her, while we are mesmerized by the insignificant stones that shine with burning light. But there are nights like this, when she unfolds her giant cloak over the Earth, and all shadows melt in a single one, and all hearts beat faster in fear. Music sounds louder, bodies sweat harder when they crash against one another in the dance floor, in the crowded streets, in the empty allies, in the parks, in the bedrooms. Serpents are born under her spell, serpents in our arms, in our heads, in our soil. She is the mother of us all. And we hide in our concrete and glass cubes. We penetrate and desecrate the flesh of another, we melt in pleasure under her never changing smile. We light bonfires, we burn the midnight oil, we make our cities a mirror of the desolated skies. We are so afraid when she is so dark and cold.

She keeps a silent eye over us, she is a serpent sky. We are all doomed to be devoured in her famished eternity. We are just mice, we are her eternal distraction. For she will never die. Darkness is after all, the only thing that has ever been present. Darkness was here before the Big Bang, before God, before there was an universal conscience that make us drift away from our sanity. Darkness will be here when we are all gone. She won the battle even before it started. We have just been too blind or too dumb to realize the truth. 

But she knows it. And she doesn’t care about our insignificant hopes of a brighter future. She knows that everything dims after a while. And she does not care about us, what we think or what we do. Why should she? So we are the damned, we are the fools. Stop praying at night kids, stop pretending God will save you. She was here before every god and will be here after all of them. So go sell yourselves to whatever plastic and neon god you worship. Be a whore, be a god, she won’t mind. She will make you suffer no matter why.

And that’s why we love her so much.

“Still trapped in wonderland?” She asked. Her voice  was distant and shivering. “I am, my dear.” I replied. “Aren’t you afraid of the queen of hearts? Or of the white rabbit? Or the Mad Hatter or the March Hare?” “”Why should I be? They are just soft whispers of a glorious fairy tale. What count are the bodies, hearts, and minds of the ones who inhabit this wonderland. And I guess we will always be afraid of something or someone in this world. But as someone wiser said, “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of being alive and not being aware of it.” And all I can tell you is that I feel alive. I enjoy every second as the last. When I can live as if each day was the last and the first at the same time. It is hard to explain, but you know, somehow I know I should keep on trying.”

“May I ask why?”

“Because, even if I fail, being in wonderland is not climbing to find something, it is just walking, discovering, learning, enjoying, loving. You are not searching for a dream, you are in the dream. It is just like Alice. She was always in a dream. She never went on looking for something… she just allowed things to come.”

“So, you are Alice.”

“No, I am a Penguin”

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