BEGIN AGAIN

BEGIN AGAIN
1991?

Begin again
Devour the sour mask of yesterday
Sorrow visions
Memories heaping
Songs sung by some ancient stranger
Old black man, tell me about your pain

Begin again
Intrepid youth fondling the soft
Child learning fire and finger
Baptism teaches first pain
Eden gone
As love

Begin
Again to rebuild façade
Call me island
Hold up temples
Yes, façade
As love

Again
Begin to pretend
New the mongrels of regret
Dead and buried
Nip at the heels
As love
Again
I begin