Dennis Andriesse

TRAUMA

It is the twelfth hour 
and the bell tolls. 
To work. 
Quietly 
they walk. 

  Above the empty houses, 
  empty streets 
  and empty hearts 
  soars a raven 
  through the thick dark sky 
  and starts its descent 

     With the rain it lands 
     before their feet, 
     reflected in their eyes 
     that have longed to close 
     since the clock froze 
     at midnight. 

GOING HOME

Step outside at last, 
into the grey skies you've always hoped for. 
Feel the rain embrace you, 
and hear her voice, 
and know 
that it will never be lost again. 

Walk away for the first time 
and carry in your heart 
the unknown father you never had, 
and whisper to him 
you've missed him. 

Let the screams no longer haunt you, 
never again the sorrow sing in your name 
the hymn of the dark and the shaded, 
and feel but the one perfect emotion 
that you are 

One 
with all you've fought for, 
and tired 
no more. 

Light in the darkness

And I was here
but no one knew

My lost self
I'd never possessed
This endless sea
but yet comes rest
my fellow wanderer

In this dark
endless storm
my bright rainbow

Have these two stars
not joined?
Will they not
defeat the rain?
It is true
and they shall never break

This realm has come
at last
This beautiful music
my God
and it is me
my love
and I am me
and you
and us
never again a lie

And I was homesick
I longed for
this foreign land
I'd never been
but it is found

And we are
and always will be
there 

Downfall of an outer self

This lovely tingle of pain
a drop of red admiration
This sweet distraction
from my imaginary agony

Take me away
from this dark heaven
Too tempting
this hell in brightness
Leave me

All is beauty
I love you
Close your eyes
and let me kiss myself

Too willing
this blade
too much a chance
for emptiness
The end of all nothing

This child
born in what?
Dead
before life

Such wisdom
so repulsive
the knowledge of darkness
This angering torture
weakening downfall
My soul left alone 

To defeat lies of dejection

From sight above
this deadly paradise
this joyful graveyard

My sons
died into themselves
My daughters
slaughtered
this consuming power

Worse than God
My father
My slayer
Our fear
These weakened demons
my everlasting guardians

Survive the truth
but death your wish
Hopeless
Endless
My everlasting demise

Heaven destroyed
This hell yet attractive
Lead me
Take me to your thoughts
Paradise blackened
This truthful joy
Death 

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