Light I knew not the hour Or the place, or the reason But it bathed me in its rays Begging to be captured, stored away Stolen from whatever plane It was cursed to claim Hovering and waiting For a heart to give up For a set of lungs to empty in its wake Emerald light slowly washed over me Offering death, begging to set me free Lifting and weeping I begged it to recede, then In a quiet room cast in pale hues Leaving no time to say goodbye to you Emerald tears fell to my skin I realized I'd felt them before Midwest hospital Cold apartment floor Bird dead in a cage Poolside on July Four Emerald light slowly washed over me Offering death, begging to set me free Emerald light carried me down the stairs To somewhere darker, more violent than here I woke to a sound Doorkeeper in the corner I asked if my time had run out There were memories and sounds Like an untuned upright piano I could have been gone for years now And we all looked like trees Almost taken by the weather Neither standing tall, nor pushed down Sometime and some place Something will carry us over But it's not here, and it's not now I woke to no sound