hurt once and for all into silence a long pain ending without a song to prove it who could stand beside you so close to eden when you glinted in every eye the held high razor shivering every ram and son and now the silent looney bin where the shadows live in the rafters like day weary bats until the turning mind a radar signal lures them to exaggerate mountain size on the white stone wall your tiny limp how can i leave you in such a house are there no more saints and wizards to praise their ways with pupils no more evil to stun with the slap of a wet red tongue did you confuse the messiah in a mirror and rest because he had finally come let me cry help beside you teacher i have entered under this dark roof as fearlessly as an honoured son enters his father s house 