Adrian

Now you`ve been tucked in For eternal earthrise and wonder A sailor through aeons Story unheard Howling at the Earth Yours the whole graveyard of heavens A ship that sailed home You`re with us, face of the night Singing through the morn for mankind I want to sing with you You`re home now, outward urge As with every dreaming creature We want to come with you Here I came to be Your reach into the far On the stellar sea Cut in little stars We all wait the due night Beauty which is worth the hurting We`re coming to join you Hope revived for a lifetime To rekindle the human spark In love with the night Now you`ve been tucked in For eternal earthrise and wonder A sailor through aeons Story now heard Howling at the Earth Yours is the whole starmap of heavens Of myriad endings We came here to be A waypoint to the far On the stellar sea Cut into little Stars calling with the sound Of a dreamlike dulcimer We came here to stay With your guiding light “And when he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world Will be in love with the night And pay no worship to the garish sun” - W. Shakespeare - Romeo And Juliet Laudato si Ad Astra

My harvest will come A tiny valorous straw Among the millions Facing to the sun I will pause before a man Whose path has just begun Something unsung our way comes The quarternary code Gave mankind a rose So we could see the beautiful die The strange peace of storm Hovers over crops And a child's face aglow before the scythe Join the harvest of hundred fields Hearty and tame All going back to one single grain Offer light to the coming day Inspire a child Water the field, surrender to the earth They have beauty beyond all poetry But choose a silent misery The deeper their sea, the less remains They'll find the pretty words And tame flocks to herd There's that, or a carousal of dare Join the harvest of hundred fields Hearty and tame All going back to one single grain Offer light to the coming day Inspire a child Water the field, surrender to the earth Arrive alive

Crave the machine Revere the screen Zoom in for flak and misery Bleed some pixels Shoot yourself Pose for the dead Have a near-life experience In a hot air matrix Now you're a star Vain avatar Feeding the beast In your loud Egoland You have become Tool of a tool Digital ghouls Telling you to Shut up and dance! Color a yarn and the crowds will gather Noise From a sunless world Your mirror is black, only a copy stares back At a slave of brave new world Noise To decoy the human voice Brain insomniac, paranoiac Endless noise Please love me See how I bleed Please endure I have such empathy in me Hum, noise, hum Beautifully numb Tapping the quiet air To have a meaning By a carrion Sad hologram Lost in the maze The real and human feel Sunset is free From this deity The Earth has a real voice Go out and get in I will follow Color a yarn and the crowds will gather Feast your eyes on the black mirror Feed the beast, join the gathering Tell a tale Feast of fears is drawing nearer Beyond the human horizon Something terrifying sleeps

Before you My home was in the wind and surf The birds and rain, voices of the northern lights Then you came I joined you beyond the aeons As you blew your cave bear bone And began to hum Eradicate the torment of a heavy heart Emancipate the deaf Sing the graceful third part Then orchestrate an air for only you to sing Caress it deep It`s always there to unlock the stars To enter Music Fanning the flames of a mystery Deepening the listening Losing Yourself to the endless symphony Of now Human Singing the tale of another man Have you ever heard Music It is coming, coming, coming your way The very first song You want to dream? Want a tale in major scale? Wish to leave the hollow, to dance with Pan? Can you hear the brave drum from the moors? Follow the beat And leave the noise behind if we be lovers Performance starts, come join the gathering And you will leave with a wildflower aftertaste Become the kind who still laughs at butterflies Give me a home inside you until the final Thank you and a good night In here, I am the silence of sound Curing the common show For the steady song There, I`ll greet the greedy crowd But will never, ever sing to them Tick-tock, time stops Follow me into the fog To the hilltop Follow the call sky-clad Evoke the Hum Allure the sirens All it took was Time and silence

Make me wonder Make me understand Spark the light of doubt and a newborn mind Bring the vast unthinkable down to earth Always wary of a captive thought Beware the very first unkind word See who you are, where from, what of Entering the unknown Sending all the poets to the stars Daring to see beyond the manmade Woe to you who evade the horizon Listening to Sagan Dreaming Carl Sagan Unseen streams With understanding no poet is trapped Woe to all who stop at the horizon What kind of world would we call home Our own Oasis of love, humility and hope Eradicating all that’s not for life What kind of aim would we call high What kind of life would bathe in the brightest white A limitless world will rise Son of man, dare to let go of cowardice

1. Four Point Six Archaean horizon The first sunrise On a pristine Gaea Opus perfectum Somewhere there, us sleeping 2. Life After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? The cosmic law of gravity Pulled the newborns around a fire A careless, cold infinity in every vast direction Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone She has a tale to tell From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast Enter LUCA The tapestry of chemistry There’s a writing in the garden Leading us to the Mother of all We are one We are a universe Forbears of what will be Scions of the Devonian sea Aeons pass Writing the tale of us all A day-to-day new opening For the greatest show on Earth Ion channels welcoming the outside world To the stuff of stars Bedding the tree of a biological holy Enter life We are here to care for the garden The wonder of birth Of every form most beautiful 3. The Toolmaker After a billion years The show is still here Not a single one of your fathers died young The handy travelers Out of Africa Little Lucy of the Afar Gave birth to fantasy To idolatry To self-destructive weaponry Enter the god of gaps Deep within the past Atavistic dread of the hunted Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought The architecture of understanding The human lust to feel so exceptional To rule the Earth Hunger for shiny rocks For giant mushroom clouds The will to do just as you’d be done by Enter history, the grand finale Enter Ratkind Man, he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day’ll cease to be Greet the last light of the library We were here! We were here! We were here! We were here! 4. The Understanding We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred 5.) Sea-Worn Driftwood There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved

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Once upon a time a song was heard Giving birth to a child of earth and verse Together we slay another fright Every Jubjub bird, spooks of the past Close your eyes and take a peek The truth is easy to see We were here Roaming on the endless prairie Writing an endless story Building a Walden of our own We were here Grieving the saddened faces Conquering the darkest places Time to rest now and to finish the show And become the Music, one with alpenglow Hand in hand guiding me into light You, the fairytale guise in blue and white You are my path my home my star A beautiful tale within the tale And when the dust needs to move on I will tuck us in on a bed of snow Painting white, silencing the valley we built Together we’ll sleep Devoured by Life

One by one we light the candles of this show One by one, enter the theatre of the primal birth Silently watch the planetary curtain go down Laugh and rejoice, as the powerful play greets you tonight We are the Edema Ruh We know the songs the sirens sang See us dream every tale true The verse we leave with you will take you home We’ll give you a key to open all of the gates We’ll show you a sea of starlight to drown all your cares Mirrorhouses, the sweetest kisses and wines A Debussy dialogue between wind and the roaring sea Dance to the whistle, to the play, to the story To infinite encores Laugh at the royalty with sad crowns And repeat the chorus once more

Come on, hop on, let’s take a ride Come and meet the travelers who came to town They have a tale from the past to tell From the great dark between the stars We are a special speck of dust A fleeting moment on an ark A celebration, A resthaven Of life Lay on a field of green With mother Eve With father pine reaching high Look at yourself in the eyes of aye-aye Unfolding rendezvous Deep into the past Follow the aeon path Greet a blade of grass Every endless form most beautiful Alive, aware, in awe Before the grandeur of it all Our floating pale blue ark Of endless forms most beautiful Beyond aeons we take a ride Welcoming the shrew that survived To see the Tiktaalik take her first walk Witness the birth of flight Deeper down in Panthalassa A eukaryote finds her way We return to the very first one Greet the one we’ll soon become

Sain y niwl, Gaunt y goydwig fwsog, Gwenithfaen, cen y coed, a’r lleuad, Un gway f’adenydd I dapestri bywyd Light shines bright beyond all the cities of gold On a road of birdsong and chocolate shops Of buskers, jugglers, innkeeper`s welcoming call The sound of mist, smell of moss-grown woods Weaving my wings from many-colored yarns Flying higher, higher, higher Into the wild Weaving my world into tapestry of life Its fire golden In my Walden I will taste the manna in every tree Liquid honey and wine from the distant hills An early morning greenwood concerto Greets my Walden with its eternal voice I do not wish to evade the world Yet I will forever build my own Forever build my own Forever my home

I climbed off your back Not so long ago To a blooming meadow To a path you’d made for the lightest feet Mother I am always close to you I will be waiving every time you leave Oh, I am you The care, the love, the memories We are the story of one Father I am always close to you I will be waving every time you leave Oh, I am you The care, the love, the memories You are forever in me This verse we wrote On a road home For you All this for you Our walk has been sublime A soaring ride and gentle lead You have the heart of a true friend One day we`ll meet on that shore again

Tear me to bits enjoy the scene Of screen name verbal vanity Churning the words imbued in filth Your tongue oily water under my bridge You have the world, it’s all for you I wish you’d find the lost in you Grateful for the pain, it proves we’re alive Can you feel it I can’t make you want the truth It’s up to you Yours is an empty hope Yours is an empty hope Feed me to pigs in your fantasies Your sea roars bitter elegies Like Narcissus who bribes the pool A hollow voice, ruin with a roof Stop! Life is now, still all for you Turn from the hate, turn from the smoke I see the parchment of your soul The notes, the song Join your voice I can let you have the world It’s all for you Yours is an empty hope Yours is an empty hope

Leave the sleep and let the springtime talk In tongues from the time before man Listen to a daffodil tell her tale Let the guest in, walk out, be the first to greet the morn The meadows of heaven await harvest The cliffs unjumped, cold waters untouched The elsewhere creatures yet unseen Finally your number came up, free fall awaits the brave Come Taste the wine Race the blind They will guide you from the light Writing noughts till the end of time Come Surf the clouds Race the dark It feeds from the runs undone Meet me where the cliff greets the sea The answer to the riddle before your eyes Is in dead leaves and fleeting skies Returning swans and sedulous mice Writings on the gardens book, in the minute of a lover’s look Building a sandcastle close to the shore A house of cards from a worn out deck A home from the fellowship, poise and calm Write a lyric for the song only you can understand Riding hard every shooting star Come to life, open mind, have a laugh at the orthodox Come, drink deep let the dam of mind seep Travel with great élan, dance a jig at the funeral Come!

These stories given to us all Are filled with sacrifice and robes of lust Dissonant choirs and downcast eyes Selfhood of a condescending ape Behold the crown of a heavenly spy Forged in blood of those who defy Kiss the ring, praise and sing He loves you dwelling in fear and sin Fear is a choice you embrace Your only truth Tribal poetry Witchcraft filling your void Lust for fantasy Male necrocracy Every child worthy of a better tale Pick your author from à la carte fantasy Filled with suffering and slavery You live only for the days to come Shoveling trash of the upper caste Smiling mouth in a rotting head Sucking dry the teat of the scared A storytelling breed we are A starving crew with show-off toys Fear is a choice you embrace From words into war of the worlds This one we forsake with scorn From lies the strength of our love Mother’s milk laced with poison for this newborn Wake up child, I have a story to tell Once upon a time

The deepest solace lies in understanding, This ancient unseen stream, A shudder before the beautiful Awake, oceanborn Behold this force Bring the outside in Explode the self to epiphany The very core of life The soaring high of truth and light The music of this awe Deep silence between the notes Deafens me with endless love This vagrant Island Earth A pilgrim shining bright We are shuddering before the beautiful Before the plentiful We, the voyagers Tales from the seas Cathedral of green The unknown, the grand show, the choir of the stars Interstellar theatre play, the nebulae curtain falls Imagination, evolution, a species from the vale Walks in wonder in search of the source of the tale

Silent night surrounding me On the shore of wistful sea A kindest heart made me believe The world as I wish it to be Wind in the wheat Kiss by a hearth Little hideaways for a lonely heart Cast away in beauty’s gloom The good in me the child within A cruelest heart made me forget The world as I wish it to be Home inside but lost for life Human heart longing for love Slave to the toil this mortal coil The strife the suffering the void Wind in the wheat Kiss by a hearth A dead calm winter morn Morning birds and a smile of a stranger Frozen moments in time Little hideaways, the marrow of life Little hideaways for a lonely heart Wind in the wheat Kiss by a hearth Little hideaways for a lonely heart Silent night surrounding me On the shore of wistful sea A kindest heart made me believe The world as I wish it to be