One I didn't have time to finish. Working on music now. Or I may just musicate it at 50/90!
Dead Night
February 28, 2022
I gaze above
At stars so bright
They decorate
The sky at night
Silent reminder
Of our plight
We won't be here forever
The closest one
4 years away
It's light is 4
Years old today
It chills my blood
No mortal way
To escape my earthly tether
Dead night
Necropolis
As we stare into
Our provenance
Divinely granted
consciousness
Can't save us from ourselves
So take yourself
Outside tonight
And gaze into the sky
At stars deceased
So long ago
And contemplate just why
You scan the sky
unsatisfied
As you too slowly die
Dead night
Necropolis
As we stare into
Our provenance
Divinely granted
consciousness
Can't save us from ourselves
© 2022 John Staples
JohnStaplesMusic.com
@mikeskliar Mar 2022
nicely done, intense stuff! kind of hoping when you do set it to music that at least a bridge or something could add slightly more hopeful note, perhaps? (just a thought, .. or at least an escape hatch of 'may not' rather then 'can't?)
@jacobeverettwallace Mar 2022
This lyric grabbed me right away and didn't let me go, well done!
@roddy Mar 2022
Very good writing. Just reading the words makes you slow down and think. You have given us some wise and insightful thoughts with these lyrics.
@coolparadiso Mar 2022
I like this john. I just read it and it just flowed, it runs really well.
I love the stars as well so this is a winner for me!
@dragondreams Mar 2022
Powerful imagery here, Mr Staples! I'm agog to hear what you do with this once you add music. :-)