dark and beautiful

[mine]
scary and sad, alive but mundane,

this life is dark but beautiful.

as it draws you in to the fullness of truth,

give in to the wooing, feel the calm lull.

'cause you can't escape and you can't slip through

the cracks of a system that wants us to cry.

...do you think we'll accept or resent the fact that

we'll be haunted by life 'til the day that we die?

inescapable and powerful, 

the dominance that grips our souls.

it holds them in strangled embrace,

until we learn to accept our role:

we're pawns throughout the universe,

scattered, our feelings rendered null.

the planets sing the every verse

of a song so sad; gorgeously dull.

blunted and foiled at every turn,

there's a smile in this mystery

that keeps us searching all our days - 

that makes us laugh, that lets us see.