The Inmost Light Itself

And when I saw the little children sing
 Their mouths were red and sad
 Their lipsticksealed smiles
 And in their minds they hold and hope some sign
 Some hope
 The gaudy sequinned dragging banner of the inmost light
 Around my eyes the sewers spew and laugh
 The fallen flower gazes at me reaped
 The crippled cuckoo falls brokenwing
 And turns around to me and brokenbeak grins
 From its head
 Thus so no fear thus so it has arrived
 The inmost light
 And if I turn my head for shame
 And see my lovers' rivers burst and folding there
 I'll cross my eyes and close my heart
 And whisper to her womb
 Greatbloodgreatsilencemymotherthemysteryofall
 Nothingmaygrasptheenoonemaygraspthee
 Letmeholdtheenowohcomeohcomeatlast
 The inmost light
 Oh God I trail my hands up to my eyes
 Up to my eyes up to my eyes up to my eyes
 And say if only then my light and if only if only if
 I had not despised
 The inmost light
 And so I kneel at bluegate blackmouthdeath
 And offer as my feeble explanation
 I thought so much was left and so much
 Time to praise and call the inmost light
 And I suppose full half and more of these are dreams
 Some broken code of morals rising after I had touched
 Her very pith and marrow oh her inmost light
 If I could scatter children
 If I could scatter children
 And while I gaze and count my coins
 After your godgoldglow they're dead
 The head is dead and lead
 I see and feel the hiding glow blaze behind you
 The inmost light
 And if your lips are taut
 Don't move your teeth to speak
 The lines will start to fall
 And pull the structure of your world
 Then all apart
 And thus you'll see you'll call the inmost night
 It wispered to me and laughed and said you
 Lied and shamed the inmost light
 And if you recall I bent yewlike and roared
 You did not see the cloudburst wind dead towards you
 Of the inmost light
 Our hands tumble towards the skies
 The block visions of the inmost light
 And if I pointless arch
 And spit white nothings at the sky
 Oh bigboys check it out too fucking late
 The children move through town
 And skip tornskirted and roll the hoop into the arms
 Of the inmost light
 Sheer char shrift and sharp
 Christ is risen you may creep to the cross too late
 But it's much too late to welcome the inmost light
 Branch sallow willow yew and tree
 Not so gay no more
 So falling faster and faster we fall
 Nearer cataclysm
 Or salvation
 Or nothing how terrible
 I we are snuffed out with just the momentary mark of smoke
 To array our passing
 So we stand milky in moonlight
 Is this all there is?
 Is this all there is?
 Is this all there is?
 Our eyes so fixed
 That the darkness surrounds us
 Unnoticed
 And we are drowned by the loss of light
 Unnoticed
 Is this all there is my friends?
 Is this all there is?
 Goodnight goodnight the inmost light
 Westron wynde when wyll thow blow?
 The smalle rayne downe can rayne can rayne
 Cryst yf my love were in my armys
 And I yn my bed a gayne
 Will you wait for me there by the dead clock?
 No more dying
 One red bird
 Will You meet me there?
 Before I sputter out?
 Dragonflies and mayflies
 Hovering candles
 As alabaster guardians for me
 If you open that door
 All hell floods out
 But quietly drably
 The colour of
 The smell of
 The texture of
 Dust