Hypnagogue I Current 93

Behind my walls are my cats
And behind my cats is a peacock singing to me of my death and yours
I said to her
"In the silence of an eye, I shall smile and arise"
And see someone I used to know sleeping
In her room, in her bed, in her body
I was in paradise
I am awake in the sound of roses and a young girl's voice
We are drowning in the approaching shadows
I am dreaming and cannot hold it

I have seen
Dear Christ, the silence and the loss
We are born and fall
Dear Christ, you too are broken and lost
And hanging like a Roman standard ovеr us all

Behind the line of my skull that hidеs behind my hair and skin
I see the selfsame skull of my father
And beyond the skull of my father; the skull of my grandfather
And the skull of my great-grandfather, whom I never knew

And so on this line, and the Alpha and Omega pointed infinity
With my eye, this fire, this fly that sees everything and smiles
And comprehends nothing and dies
I see all around my head and that end