Old Man Beneath the Cave

I met a wise old man last night
deep in a cave
a bunker that looked surprisingly weak
but it wasn't. For he sipped tea beneath it all
I knew how to find him,
only because I was loosing a war
But he told me why I had to be fighting
and why I wasn't winning, and shouldn't
though I knew my cause was just, my enemies cruel
but we'd never learn any other way
what cruelty was, and how to foster it
what justice is, and how to foster it
I forgot most of what he said
If I sought the man's face,
I might have never have found it.
This is how these things work
But the fading emotion, the eloquence
nag me throughout the day

Solving Immortality

Solving Immortality

we looked over the river at night
vaguely conscious of the universe,
and by that, the way the universe was conscious of ourselves.
And I told you, but you did not believe
that I had solved immortality
when I said I didn't know where I was going
you did not come too.

perhaps the universe will expand and grow cold and dark
I will breathe my last and cease to be.
In those atoms, I could not impose my will
but I would do you well
I would cling to your lungs,
pump through your heart
For if it were otherwise, I would never be.

But if not a soul, I am conscious
like a program on the hardwire of my brain
and as a program, I can be rebuilt
written on the stars or in a sea of hydrogen on the void
as such, I will know you, however I find you
And I will form a bond, a gravity,
in any form I'd find you
and if it were otherwise, I would never be

It does not matter, really
perhaps a quantum phenomena, as they say
the universe will expand, and contract
arrange again in infinite time.
And in infinity I must be, and I want to be found.
I'd change by the churning cycle
and you would move with the universe too
For if you were not so aware, how could you be you?

It doesn't matter how, I could find you sure as hellfire
We'd barbecue with Gandhi and Socrates,
Man, sky or buddha, it is you I'll seek out behind them
and it is mankind who breaks me and inspires
a few whispered traces of love I give back.
And if that is a shadow of something greater,
it is a shadow of the love I have for you
and I could only find more.

I'd see god in you if there was one
but your voice is just as silent between the stars
Believe anything, anything with beauty and mystery
and I will find you,
run away with passion,
but follow you again, someday.
Tell me when you've solved immortality,
I'll fling myself towards fate in all it's forms
But if you won't follow me?
If you do not believe I need find you?
Well that, more than anything beyond my death
saddens me