tea with dream queens

i take tea with dream queens
speak of the things we've seen
try and find a reason 
for feeling my being's 
a broken down playground 
for angels and daemons
neither succeeding 
but if either one falters
see resolve dissolve 
like salt into water
as vicious fish 
feed on wishes missed
in a land of stained glass mansions 
ripped to bits by bricks
i sit in the ruins of beauty
shackled to the smoke stacks 
that take the place of fruit trees
whose loose leaves 
feed by smooth breeze
screamed colors in the end
no sound but wind 
as they blanket the ground
now cement foundation 
in the midst of a wasteland
lets face it
i'm the son of a country 
that rapes sacred ancients
run on hungry tummies 
and the pouring of pavement
escaped basic enslavement 
to make this statement
all i'm asking 
is to live is a fashion
where people are capable of conjuring 
some sort of compassion
shatter established 
learned patterns of past
burn frigid bridges 
map paths in the ash
smash the hour glass open 
fashion castles in the sand
sing the songs we sang 
before the dawn of man
in the past on the grassland 
masked dance reenacts
stories and myths 
that are actually facts
back before division 
eclipsed intuitions wisdom
we lived within cyclical rhythms
a fission splintered 
existence into fractions
now prisons replace 
simple interactions
a graceless fall 
from graceful relations
i meditate 
and wait for the day when
we awaken forsaken imagination 
make grapes from raisins
and create substance 
where space had been
stay patient with limitations 
make them become useful
two sides to every sword 
the ugly and the beautiful
to be truthful 
i house both good and evil
together forever 
i exist as all people
full spectrum collection 
like light reflects in prisms
splits infinity
many eyes like insect vision
hell is repetition 
the only sin in coercion
heaven's the condition 
of two bodies merging
virgin and the slut
secular and sacred
molecular awakening 
in bodies lying naked
everything the same 
it all became plain
men as straw dogs 
women, paper cranes
in the hour of now 
watch a new dawn rise
there's beauty in the view 
even through polluted skies
purify the poison
heal and live again
give something real 
feel and befriend
sip from loves cup 
sup on earth's pleasures
fuel all your fires 
and fly with your feathers
endeavor for heaven 
for over-extendace
bests resting forever 
then clutching at remnants
when its cold and dark 
and hearts start to harden
stay out of stasis 
grow like a garden
fear has no basis 
there's no need to cower
leave needless weeds 
reseed them with flowers
in after hour shadows 
scour city back roads
jack tractors and backhoes
and smack concrete with an axe
so grass grows 
through the cracks
wear squares back down 
into round shapes
as before the human race 
replaced the ways of apes
face the past and the future 
but reside in the present
stay wide eyed to life 
savor every second
as summer sun 
becomes wind and rain
through the storm we're reborn 
laugh to mask the pain
and grow from the strain 
so it goes from birth
turn cruelty into beauty 
and help to heal the hurt
we walk upon this earth 
but we're only human beings
so i take tea with dream queens
and speak of things we've seen