Darker (written 25.06.2021)
[V1]
If you are the law, I'll forever be in chains
If you are the word, I'll cut my tongue and eat the same
If this is love then Adam failed at naming names
Want it darker? Extirpate another flame.
[Excerpt from Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker]
Magnified, sanctified
Be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker
[V2]
Every child needs their mother like oxygen to a flame
With her, they're earth without a planetoid un-proclaimed.
Said it was good then you inaugurate a bloke and a dame
Want it darker? Here's the world reframed.
[V3]
Had a falling out with them, then comes the curse and the shame
Hail Mary to Yeshua who came and bore the blames.
There's a lover in this story, but the story's still the same
There's a lullaby for suffering and a paradox yet untamed
You want it darker?
[V4]
They are singing hymns and praying, while their Cains' are taking aim.
Yours are plagued with diseases while the wicked prosper unrestrained.
I struggle with these demons, I'm surprised what's seen as sane
That death still exists or the permission we have to murder and maim.
[Excerpt from Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker]
Magnified, sanctified
Be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
It does get darker.
[Endnote]
In memory of my beloved sister, best friend and confidant Precious Kimba Emmanuel who passed away on 2 May 2021
