When empty bullets grounded.
Corpsed smell counted on targets.
His majesty's name summoned.
Made a license to kill less harsh.
Showing Paradised, Heavened, Edened.
Stalling for time, many children asked.
Being unsure of how to answer:
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.
Far from rare to be sleek
be holy...
if peace be conquered
Be a parable...
conquer life, lest your sins fall
on earth beware
But be patient
conquer your freedom
Procul harum este nitidi,
este sanctum...
si vinci pace
parabellum este...
vince vita, ne cadas peccata
in terris cave...
Patienta tamen
libertae vince
(Best read with this poem's theme music playing)
"BLACK SWAN THEORY"
Free Agent
Black Swan Theory
White Pearl rolling in
Some kind of Black Pearl World
Black Swan Theory
Decoded, Fragile Love Songs Broken in
Some Kind of Black Pearl World
Red Shoes Dance Home with the Witch-Way Girl
Decoded, Fragile Love Songs Broken in
Free Agents' Escape Dossier, you’re handed free tokens
Red Shoes Dance Home with the Witch-Way Girl
Vapid Vanilla Kisses, Black Marzipan my Villain's Secret Kisses Unfurl
Free Agents' Escape Dossier, you’re handed free tokens
Love’s Bullets melting Hot Ice Heart
Vapid Vanilla Kisses, Black Marzipan my Villain's Secret Kisses Unfurl
Diamond Hieroglyphics My Windows on Your World
(Lovejoy-Burton/April 2018)
"rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno"
"Subway"/Peter Murphy
https://youtu.be/iiUOUNubUW4
https://genius.com/Peter-murphy-subway-epilogue-lyrics
" Non est ad astra mollis e terris via."
[ There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. ]
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A quiet night, fire,
from nowhere.
Explosions that boomed,
like flowers that bloom.
Lives perished so soon,
swept by fire, into the gloom.
The earth was shaken
The sky was lightened
The city, slept in flames.
Smoke rose
up to the sky.
Along with souls
lost in the night.
Shaken.
Enlightened.
Forever, they sleep in flames.
And, no longer awaken.
ps.
In remembrance of those perished in TianJin Explosion, 12 August 2015.
May they rest in peace.
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