In Your Memory, Year of Beginnings

From my memory and from endless maps I recreated my homeland to write newly upon it And on the twenty first day, God rested for months To ensure the world could shine darkly The February sun shone mercilessly As the only thing that could kill my hunger I tasted their lips before walking into another set of credits Ever pondering why I even bothered to perform Endless ghosts whirled before me As all past plot threads wrapped up nearly beneath me Gazing into the bright Spring sun My heart rang as hollow as ever Twenty four and there's so much more As an unwitting finale to permanent summer vacation dragged out Beaten down by sun and arm in arm We twin herobreakers drank the days away Forever locked within my skull My gray matter cried for what it lacked And yet I let the waves crash down on me To shield those who wouldn't return the favor from life Thirteen months deep into stillness I finally entered my field and ran The summer sun never touched my skin As I built and used a new TV studio Culinary echoes bounded back at me As the wizened elder who craved the chance That stony faced and sleepy eyed children only took Because they felt as though they must, rather than they could Falsely accused with no recourse I let my rage vanish into the aether And lost myself within routine As the heroic replacement I so desperately wanted to be I took a student under my wing And began to consider a new flight path As this nest I came to know Was battered by the fell wind I flew in on And on that hill where my life was saved twice before A dashing warlord gave me the missing piece I craved The gentle tune of the ocarina called And every morning, I patched what was lost And thus the twin herobreakers merely became one As I abandoned him to act as God As nasty as any punch to the liver could be When it became clear we could only bond over booze And thus I waved goodbye to a decade of growth Asleep at 10 with no fanfare From every end comes a new beginning So rest well knowing I'll remember you fondly.