18 Steps

(Anastasio)

Halloween elbow
Half-way crumbled
Elegant symbol
Acres green
All of this will end below
This artificial avalanche

Thin lines
Ever-sinking ship
Steel swings
Thin, cold stream
Enters this awful dream

You at the door
Always with a smile
And a wave of the hand
That you hold

For everyone must go up and down those 18 steps
Everyone must go up and down those 18 steps

Two times a day
But can’t you see
What you have

For everyone must go up and down those 18 steps
To be…

Lost, empty
Languid, hollow
Still I end up rescued
Pissed, but free
Anna says to Indigo,
“All of this will have to pass.”

Thin lines never seem to slip
Steel swings
Thin, cold streams
Ending this empty scene

You at the door
Always with a smile
And a wave of the hand
That you hold

For everyone must go up and down those 18 steps
Everyone must go up and down those 18 steps

Locusts and angels all go down those 18 steps
In a broken time
Beggars wait below those 18 steps
At the bottom of he chain that leads you down those 18 steps
Last among all equals you go down those 18 steps

Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe
Breathe