Children of Paradise

Heaven must yield to glory Accept our orphaned children Come light gentle bathe These black forgotten corridors Distorted images of death Dance imperious before our eyes Struggling to live right Surviving the darkened dread In the calm balm of amnesia We float in carefree laughter Defying the anchoring ache Inhaling expectant death Exhaling desired life Walking the dichotomous path Twinned joy and pain Offspring at heaven’s door Inheritors lost upon this earth Seeking to reclaim the future Bastard products of despair We live in the dark alleys of history The sunless realms of loneliness The blind lanes of misery Mystic impossibility We claim divine birth rights Watching deep into midnight For the promised sunrise Insipid timid reality In disfigured disguise Life is stone and bone For the children of paradise