Magnum Opus

I think I’m writing song lyrics?

Who would choose to be rescued
Do not prolong me
I remember the day
It felt timeless 
The skies were empty lots

I wanted a Magnum opus
But it was me, unfinished
And I I witnessed
Like an effigy 

I stood in silence, a bedside artifact 
It was an obsession that gripped me
And I wanted it to release me 
Call me what I am 

It was the terror that whispered to me
The terror that unfurled like candlelight

I saw things changing and I couldn’t stand it 
I felt my future unfolding
It was like a rare grace to me
To vanish without tracings

Some nights I swear everything seems unsurvivable 
I unravel I unravel I unravel 
Life impassable
But the terror passed through me  

I was a weird child adrift 
And the universe listened to me 
Consumed by the fear of discovery
I’m an artist by necessity 

Who would choose to be rescued
Do not prolong me
I remember the day
It felt timeless 
The skies were empty lots

I wanted a Magnum opus
But it was me, unfinished
And I I witnessed
Like an effigy 

I almost walked when the light was green  
A shadow on the periphery 
Like snowdrops growing in a Vienna spring 
Suffice it to say 
The silence scarred me 
Survivor of a senseless violence 
It was an art to me 
A night demon ceding territory 

Was it desperation 
I went west 
How it harrowed me into hysteria 

Was it gleaming 
Angels treading the stream of time 
Gathering dusk in golden lands

Finally lifted from suffering
I was Sleipnir sleeping on his tracks
It was a greed that resurrected me
And to a greed that I surrendered