Fire and Security

In ambient asylums
They live, sane as I
These emptiest apologies
Decay now and die

In fire and security
You flash through my brain
My all-intact identity
When I was losing my mind
That was all I hoped to retain

The towers of the universe
Align way up high
The sky completes their symphony
If they can measure the hours
Why oh why can't I?

It's only forever now, a matter of time
It's only another wall as yet unclimbed

Am I still the sum of nothing
Misguided, suddenly drained?
If I'm about this new corrosion
The slow emotional rate of change

Have I shown an easy target
Destructions that follow so well?
I rail against that ultimatum
Delivered in this untidy hell

Alone inside the passive house
Disaffected, looking back
When time left no memory
No dark circumference that I could see till now
It's only forever

Immortal remains contain who we are
We burned like the sun at night
We realigned the stars

It's only forever now, no time at all
It's only forever