Sequence Viii: Styx

Sunlight is drowning the halflight

As the feelings return

Strange and familiar a nocturnal fear

Appearing and disappearing

There is the river running deep

And it is floating through the veins

A nameless dread of the unknown

Temporary sight an apprehension

Vague yet saddening

Black angels guiding me

The sum of all my fears

Black angels owning me

Whispering through me

The ties are loosening

Black angels guiding me

me

Into the wordless into the neverland

All sights and sounds slowly dissolve

No gravity no memory

Far off stars in the afterglow

A god removes the veil

I'm holding in and I'm holding it out

Until the strangeness disappears

Last night I heard the waters dreaming

Stones were fast asleep along the riverbed

Let the waters wash all over me and let me dream again

Of something good

Let me dream of sheltered places of precious moments

And of long-lost faces of truthful words that finally do make some sense

Lay out these maps before me

Let me trace again the borderlines of land and sea

Flood the tide pools and wash away the shores

No longer at the mercy of the waves just let me breathe again

Let me stand and bathe in the healing light

And one more time let me navigate just let me navigate by the stars

Roads and rivers a winding in a circle

Around the same old headstrong me

Outside looking in time and time again

Feeling the heat of a recurring dream