Saltfield's Songs

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[saltfield]

On Top of the World

From my high up, mountaintop,

Fields of green sprawl wide.

Flowers grow where I don't know,

Their petals seem to hide.

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And the clouds surround me, dazzling,

Playing light like music notes.

The reach of friends and family,

The dream of lonely mountain goats.

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I've reached the top of the world...

There's no beauty left to be found.

I've reached the end of my fraying rope.

Now there's nowhere to go but down.

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The frost is lost upon my brow,

Like so many peaks before.

Rumbling stones that tumble down,

Their names committed to yore.

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Frigid fog in my eyes, mesmerize,

Fields of white confine.

The world below, I don't know.

Their people don't feel like mine.

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From so high up, I'm wandering...

The wonder is sprawling...

Will I ever be in reach...

Of the flowers that seem so enthralling?

[saltfield]

Honored Beast

Venerable mucilage,

Most honored of the rank beasts,

Drip from your god's nostrils,

As we beg, no, worship your entrails.

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Seep through the cracks of my mind.

To be awash in thick revulsion!

Lubricate me with your wisdom,

As I glean a new kind of vision:

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Sea grass falls limp beneath you.

Tides fall silent, and you displace waters.

We drink only what you deem right,

Fit to fatten and spoil our daughters.

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It is love, such free, open love,

That I lie with my body's decree.

Who would wish for the shelter of man,

When the honored beast feasts on me?

[saltfield]

To the Edge

You told me what I wanted,

You told me you were there.

That we'd make it work and we'd make it good,

But you made it so unfair.

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Choices from my past,

Made of goals that didn't last.

I built you up, but I made you up,

How did it all go wrong so fast?

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Rewind me, unbind me,

I need some time to find me.

Freedom comes from what I've undone,

And I'm done with all your cares.

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You're a thread around my heart,

And I'm unraveled before I start,

To stitch us back where we belong,

And you're pulling me along.

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Because all I ever wanted...

Because I thought that you'd be here...

That we'd make it work and we'd make it good,

But I made you up, my dear.

[saltfield]

Crier's Bell

Accords towards alated angels,

I'm cracked like ember ashen coals,

Deformed and warmed with jaded angles,

Laughing with those merry fools.

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Holly jolly discrepancies,

Holy bullies drown our glee.

Set me free, my freedom rings,

My Liberty's a museum piece.

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There's only one better way.

Clapper in my soul, make sound.

Swing me by the hallowed gallows,

As the Judas Silver wears my crown.

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Headlong, cherished retribution,

Spreads its song in parish devotion.

The path, unlikened to my homeland,

Walks with unfamiliar emotion.

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I am a seedling: hardly sprouted,

Barely more than a child's cry.

Rarely sure, with a heart full of lies,

I ring my bell until the music dies.

[saltfield]

The Garland Line

How many pages are left to read

Before I'm found in leaf-littered letters?

As you break down my spine,

I wonder why it's so divine?

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When I dreamed of the garland line,

Pearls of love were fed to swine.

I'm trapped inside your mantle,

I belong to what's never mine.

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Trespasser in my own heart,

I can't cut out what you hate,

Because you're not here with me,

And it's a hunger you can't sate.

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I can't believe in who you are,

Because I'm your pearl you don't believe.

Made as one, but we're just two bodies...

Maybe, it is, we're just two nobodies.

[saltfield]

Festum Lunius

Our wizened age curses covenants,

A confluence of modernity, sickening.

Wastrel malevolence stirs debasement,

Morality suffers our petty crimes.

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Figure wallowing in oppression,

Scorching desert heat grips you,

And your oasis, but a mirage,

Parching your throat of embassage.

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You're delirious, little creator,

Illusory visions cast salvatory shade.

Set a fire in your cascade,

Burning to ashes once-living water.

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At the foot of dessicated branches,

Stones thrown bear oppression's sigil,

The fingerprints of many little creators,

Smiling, burning, growing never wiser.

[saltfield]

Cheerily Bright

Skin deep convolutions,

Water running down your veins.

Cool down to sea level,

Let the light pass through.

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I want to see your soul again,

Hear the melodies in your tones,

Love like an X-ray beam,

Glowing bright against your bones.

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Every ridge reminds me of mountains.

Every dip, like a valley in bloom.

Skin deep, I'm barely scratching,

What you're hiding in a lead-lined room.

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Tell me all about your stories,

Whether they're real or make-believe.

Let me explore more of your passions,

I hold my breath to let you breathe.

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What I love lies deep inside you,

Because it's unimaginable.

Even x-rays can't describe your heart,

Because you're so unfathomable.

[saltfield]

Blue Swoon

On the surface of the moon,

Undulating with the lunar soil,

Like a shockwave from an asteroid,

You are the impact I can't avoid.

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Low gravity.

I leap beyond the atmosphere.

I shot for stars in the dark,

And I landed in your heart.

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Everything is blue on the marble world,

But it's your eyes that pull me in.

Marbled in colors I can only imagine,

Where can we go from here?

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We're a binary system,

Lost in each other's arms,

Take my name, be my cosmos,

Wrapped like rings around us.

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Beneath the skylight, I wander.

Outstretched hand casting shadows.

I dream of us, flying to the moon,

Beyond this marble's blue swoon.

[saltfield]

In for the Krill

At the edge of the shore I go,

A boundary to what seems like sea,

Love are the little ones milling about,

Coming and going with the flow.

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Droplets taste like nostalgia,

The noir of a cinema dream,

Transatlantic crooning swans,

Drunk on endless possibility.

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Delightful diversions,

Distractions make the mundane whole,

Sand in my swimsuit brings me back,

Holistic evaluations.

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Unsettled words run rampant here.

If coral grew around my heart,

Could I feed this ocean of warm feelings?

Could I free your littlest fears?

[saltfield]

Heartbeat Sky

Oh those whispers under streetlight corners,

With your sparkling constellation eyes,

Did we believe they could ever escape us?

Dream your imagination into mine.

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Facets jeweled every edge,

Even darker words seemed resplendent.

Oh how I grasped deep for those fantasies,

When our realities grew dependent.

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Your mysterious misgivings halted.

Silent tapping on the window sill...

I leaned on you like a summer's breeze,

When every light burned out and fell.

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How could you find us somewhere else?

Star crossed lovers in a heartbeat sky.

Clouds came and covered what we had,

Let the summer come and make it dry.

[saltfield]

Pardon Parcel

Terror shapes by hourglass,

I'm green, defiled in mold,

Breathing your spores I hold,

On this languid summer porch.

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I feel you coursing through me,

Sick, upturned, wellsprings spent,

Like my own ghost is truant,

Foreign to the home I call.

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Dance in the shambles, curdling,

Spin the dizzying rot of emotion,

Newspapers dated to a world in motion,

As the sun blots cold in my eyes.

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Never was a winter like this.

Frost smitten where glass meets sand,

Mountains fall at the turn of a hand.

Blind eye, cold shoulder, divine.

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Hurry, disillusionment, curry.

Spur me in fulminate blasphemy,

Devolution is a stone age mystery,

Undeveloped as the day I was born.

[saltfield]

Seasick Caramel

It hurts me; I forget.

My little urchin of woe,

Poke and prod with your willingness,

Train us how to feel so full.

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How you scooped my icecream heart,

Leaving coconut, paper white,

Stuck deep inside my broken teeth,

I lie with you in the limelight.

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Disney, corrugated paper craft,

Storybook never afters.

Sink or swim, I still can't breathe,

Guide my neck toward the rafters.

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Choose me, why can't I?

What seems special any more?

Flecks of pigment look like life,

Pantone Certified Pure.

[saltfield]

Disemvoweled

Sharp tongue, dagger blade,

Writ my scalpel how it's made,

Trust was broken, little window,

Pain inside me, pain inside.

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Little pieces strewn askew,

Why'd you break them, I ask you?

Picked and packed like little rats,

Squeak my bones beneath your shoe.

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Revival! All we need is revival.

Revolving the alchemist's vial.

Drink me up, see it as good.

Oh hunger, drive me mad.

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Catch again the catching can,

Dust is wearing your face again.

Let it go, boy, let it go.

Shut your body down.

[saltfield]

Triage

The wherewithall to wear without,

Withholding of our withering doubt,

When winter whelms with worried wails,

The winds are warmer where it fails.

[saltfield]

Grow Old into the Night

Mine are fantasy-engrained decisions,

Hallmark-entrant, Colosseum-hearkened.

Might of mine betrays that cordial spirit,

Earth, it spins delusions to the darkened.

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Pick a card from fifty-two long faces,

Twinning heads of state with chilling statures.

Perfect pair with daggers drawn on aces,

Pinning their perfection to your heartbreak.

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Draw your mind as I once drew these sorrows.

Drink the cup which spills of anxious ichor.

Words lay long upon my evening's shadows,

Moon above, make bright what falls snow-silver.

[saltfield]

The Right Side of History

A trick of the light.

My throne is a case study,

Power structures unsteady me.

What I love is contradicting.

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I heard deep words of wonderment,

Stepping stones to lift me up.

How it led the hero's journey on,

While villains plot abscondence.

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I was made to be a star,

The king of lands both near and far,

Rooted every fiber into them,

A wander leading nowhere.

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From the dust I call my name,

Even echoes don't reply.

When I stand to face the other line,

I wonder why it looks like mine.

[saltfield]

Bell Sublime

A rare and regular weekday treat,

So sweet and simple,

Chocolate in a mouse's face,

Though I've long forgotten the taste.

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Stilted legs and a robin's egg,

Sketches of imagination,

In the corner of the yard.

When were you discarded?

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Starlit steps through ecstasy,

Paved between my bones.

Where footfalls echo beyond,

Deafness takes the sound.

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When my ghosts return,

What was dead begins to burn.

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Reminders bring the former bind,

Unwinding lines I've bound to time,

A king in mind, but peasant kind,

Ring of torment, Bell Sublime.