I am no Angel

The great Titan
Shepherd scorned
Stands indignant at the Gates

Voids breached by
Arrogant innocence
Pave way to flame-lit skies

Punished were the many
The powerful
Punished with ash and soot
Innocence more punished by
Closeness

Four faces, three of beast
Our only savior


-DubTak

Deadly Ecstasy

Sweet curls of pain
wisping up in graceful arcs
Bags so used to holding breath

Tremble

Chills turn to shudders of ecstasy
tracing deadly spirals
into the air


-DubTak

Click

Swing hips and coffee pots
Swish, swish, click-click-click
Hands on skin stretched taught
Boom, ba-boom, click-click-click
Steel flying in blurry arcs
Shing,- - click-click-click
Pendulums fail to comprehend
Swing, click, swing, click-click-click
Tiny circles in each hand
Kring, kring-a-chick, click-click-click
Moonlight makes a stump a floor
Thunk, thunk, a-click-click-click
I am.


-DubTak

Flood

Falling off of ladders

Demanding life for those few
undeserving of
Fire Rain

Rechiseling stone tablets


Drawing the sword to the Heavens

Condemns not Man

Drunkards on manure-filled boats

Summon forth the Waters

-DubTak

Trenches

Block my ears
Block the sun
Floating lights move past my wings

Endless cold
and Endless night
Finally I come home again


-DubTak

Grey Nothing

Two lines peak and fade
Green and brown give way
Golden spires fall into nothing

Walk uphill and disappear
Line of nothing leading home

Blur my eyes
Block my sight

Embrace me
Surround me
Embrace me

-DubTak

Suite #2: Shofarot

I. Tekiah

The Great Shofar is sounded
A blast of gold and amber
The procession of the righteous carries with them

Two Great Cherubim of Gold

Amber gleam contained

Harken to the Holy Call!

Trees bow low
weeds raise up
Kingdom and Kingship
Law and Grace

Harken to the dark, to the deep!

With a beginning, the Great Shofar sounds!

II. Shevarim

The still, small voice is heard
Blood pools from tent spikes
meshing with a mother's tears

My son! My evil son!

Salty blood and salty tears
Pillars of pity
Pillars of grief for the wicked
No Glory without Sorrow
without turning

Turning, death rather than
life of turning

Wailing over canteens of milk
Blood of enemies
Blood of allies

Harken to the Great Wail!

III. Teruah

The Great Shofar is sounded
A blast of red and orange
Winged aspects flee
before the drums

Smashed lanterns of orange
Crashing
Resonating
Fearing

Harken to the spear, not pruning hooks!

Sweet blood runs like milk and honey
Roads paved of good intentions
Iron graeves break cobblestones
Raise the standard of Crimson
of Burgundy

Harken to the Great and the Terrible!

IV. Tekiah Gedolah

The Great Shofar is sounded
The still, small voice is heard

Prone rise to silver


Tongues swell

Blood begets dust

and Dust is our End


-DubTak

Suite #1

I

Suns of flame cast down
Searing the unworthy what venture too close

Wings of Wax

become

Wings of Fire

Fruit of Knowledge, half eaten

Rots in fearless adolescence

II

Cursed with ambition

Cursed with arrogance

Cursed with the Holy Spark

Shattered pottery pieces cut

the Uncareful
the Unknowing
the Cursed

Towers, lightning-struck
Crumbles into

Dubious Anxiety

What small piece of Amber Gleam blinds

the Unknowing
the Uncareful
the Blessed



III

Chosen

means not

Chosen

The Shepard must
bow

to the snow

-DubTak