Copyright 2009 Cheryl Anderson
from “The Long Countdown”
Cauterize this open night
inside hands too twisted to see the light
you appear to be nothing more to me than a collector of our Tradition
Circumcise the prophets’ eyes
till they see nothing more than your borrowed lies
at least next time the world ends we will be martyrs of our creation
They burried Eve sixty feet
you know a woman’s suffering
you see it in her eyes and in her screams
for a connection
I know I don’t walk easily
into the broken tapestry
but the ghosts unborn and craving life
leave the womb inside this nation
(chorus)
So raise me up, I’m an instrument
unstrung and warped, I’m a testament
to the Source beyond the firmnament
that keeps my heart alive
but I’m just a blood flesh woman
tonight
Tiamat broke down the line between the tears of these forgotten crimes
I eat the apple readily and wonderwatch the poison spread
Princesses in their marble halls reading books to tear down the walls
the weapons of a pampered slave, too proud to raise her head
I’m no better teacher, just experienced
these girls have so much that’s dangerous
to a world gone mad, we are the sycophants
in silken thread count beads
and the mirrored Christian, Muslim king
keeps stealing what he’s borrowing
I hope a change is quickening
to the waking of the Dead
Chorus
I said raise me up I can’t see the light
between these quantum feilds of satellites
all dancing to the Shepherd’s lie
like so many sheep in bed
Strings and shattered sound
I am a girl guitar in a piano town
playing only what’s been sung to me through these untuned keys
and the soul’s alive, there’s blood inside
feed the seed I need to die
to give birth to what I fear can only save me now
sygil speak your will to me, in pens that leak a lover’s tree
The white magick marks a part of me I’m willing to sacrifice
but not tonight