rainbow's end
Tails flicked and hoofs kicked
And horns they started to blow.
It was getting late through time's gate
Almost too late for me to go
Follow a dream in a written scheme
Whose end I didn't know.
Every route looks good
When it's understood
From a point far below.
Cows spilled out they'd lost all doubt
Of a limit called full throttle.
Uncertainty dies in springtime skies
When cows see broken milk bottles.
I walked the land 'til I came to stand
In the middle of four legged stances.
I craved their touches
Even offered them bunches
Of sweet home grown grasses.
They gave me their eyes
But not their thighs
As any demure girl might.
Trying to reach 'em without preachin'
I asked, “you turning green to white?”
You can ask about sunscapes and seascapes
Any old time is right
But asking 'bout interior landscapes
Is best left for the night.
And like a love just lost those cows disappeared
Before they were out of sight.
I'm doomed to go on walking
'Til the end of time is reached.
It's as close as around the corner
When time itself is breached.
One step closer to destiny
A woman shouted my name.
Or it seemed my name and me she wanted
But to me it was all the same.
Near the crest of a hill on that summer's day
I saw the intent of her cry
Her Alsatian's smiling teeth
Had completely replaced the sky.
A blood oath she swore
Drawing her knife from its sheath
The next time our paths crossed
The dog would own a leash.
Around the bend of the hill
The dog was walking alone.
Carrying a six inch leash
And me just a six foot bone.
And like a love just lost
By talking to an empty listening post
You find it's the heart sound needs to hit
It's the dog you need to talk with most.
I'm doomed to go on walking
'Til the end of time is reached.
It's as close as around the corner
When time itself is breached.
One more step in the only direction
On that twisted unmarked path
Took me to where in purple gloom
Grew the grapes of wrath.
Autumn's solid promise
Stood waiting for man's pressure
To liquefy its brains like it does to man
Who then calls it pleasure.
To protect man's native grapes
From nature's native birds
A net had been stretched over them
But carried no warning words
So that a blackbird now spread-eagle
Had struggled to its death
Tangled in that protective net
For what's protection worth?
And like a love just lost
By jealousy on patrol
You find things you hold most dearly
Are best held with no hands at all.
I'm doomed to go on walking
'Til the end of time is reached.
It's as close as around the corner
When time itself is breached.
Left, right, up, and down
It's all a navigator's fright.
The next step I took turned out
Any which way but right.
Into a world turned blind
By winter's shroud of white.
Deeper than the sound of love
Weeping in the night.
So deep that my footprints alone
Would be found in tomorrow's light.
To answer the question repeated
By every man on the rack
Could you and if so should you
Even think of going back.
With god's ruler step for step
I matched yesterday's measured stroll.
Now still holding god's ruler i'll forever see
The last step before the fall
When to my everlasting horror
Hell fire would melt it all.
And like a love just lost
By traveling to the past
You find the memories of the future
Are the only things that last.
I'm doomed to go on walking
'Til the end of time is reached.
It's as close as around the corner
When time itself is breached.