undone


your face is bloody.
tell me what they have done.
the thought sirens are blaring.
the system's come undone.
come wipe the dirt off,
and tell me what you've done.
take a drink and spit it out,
and tell how you're undone.

I SCREAM INTO THE RAGING WIND,
AND TEAR MY TEETH INTO THE GROUND.
YOU STAND HERE BUT YOU'RE FAR AWAY,
BECAUSE YOU'RE UNDONE TOO.
COME TO ME WITH YOUR HANDS OF STONE,
AND THEY'LL WARM THESE FINGERS OF STEEL.
YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP ME THROUGH,
BECAUSE YOU'RE UNDONE TOO.

breathe into me.
and tell me what we've done,
as we lie here in the wake of sin
and forget what might become.
we can run but we can't hide
from the hammer that pounds us from inside.
it's pain that makes whatever fun
and we live because we are undone.

I SCREAM INTO THE RAGING WIND,
AND TEAR MY TEETH INTO THE GROUND.
YOU STAND HERE BUT YOU'RE FAR AWAY,
BECAUSE YOU'RE UNDONE TOO.
COME TO ME WITH YOUR HANDS OF STONE,
AND THEY'LL WARM THESE FINGERS OF STEEL.
YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP ME THROUGH,
BECAUSE YOU'RE UNDONE TOO.

stay beside me.
and remember what we've done.
you'll feel hurt but it really is joy
that through life has become undone.
scream into the bloody wind,
and tear your hands into the soil.
remember always what we've done.
it's all that keeps us still UNDONE.


B. Diezmann
(from the collection reprise of a dying choir)




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