Winter Solstice

Winter solstice, the earth open wide
 With a heart crushed like footsteps in snow
 Fictitious persons disclaimers implied
 To all listening from rooftops below
 It had rained and the air was like perfume outside
 As the sky changed
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 We began when the ground was still dry
 Planting vineyards where vineyards don't grow
 Shaping cypress with pitch on both sides
 For the nights when our trumpets won't blow
 That regret still there circling like vultures inside
 As your face changed?
 They don't stay inside (There but for Thy grace go I)
 Through the eyes of machines, immaculate scenes
 That had already passed me by
 All the stars on the ground, Noah's ark in the clouds
 Set sail in the flood of my mind
 The other animals drowned in blasphemous towns
 And asked as they passed me by
 Was to do as I please a European disease?
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 Winter solstice, the earth had closed down
 So with breastplates of righteousness low
 Searched for streams in the caves underground
 Where the Baptists and bootleggers go
 And you smile but your vampire complexion still shows
 And your past shows
 It's really all that shows (so often unrecognizably so)
 Through the eyes of machines viewed immaculate scenes
 That had already passed me by
 All the stars on the ground, and Noah's ark in the clouds
 And the thought in the back of my mind
 Does my misery feed a metaphysical need
 That's long since passed me by
 Neither reasoning why nor offering reply?
 Dear my newlywed wife you're not the love of my life
 It had already passed me by
 Finally grasping the line, casting pearls before swine?