The Brass Ring

Entrance

Again creaks open the colourful gate

The box hums to a cheerful prance

While all around the dark joins fate

On arid vasts in fatal dance

Menagerie

With the wild chase cross deserts and woods

Under the sea and cut through the clouds

Tossing and turning and laughter and burning

In a time of beautiful new and boring known

All darting senses on vivid strange dreams

Till eyes fall on the lamb and they fall on the lion

Void of everything but wonder

A young soul opens and offers pure passion to all

Brass ring

Our candles flickering seized by the spin

Childish dreams torn over thrones within

From peaceful love lasting longer than we

Springs ever a sparkle of hope for me

King horse

Then one day all the wonders would cease

In displays and labels behind glasses to please

The conscious masters are destined for keys

To a world unfolding piece after piece

So gallop along in holy crusades

Act in your favour with flowers or blades

Steer clear of sentimental charades

Know right and know wrong and no other shades

Chariot

Op atop the coach and two

Racing over charred earth

Surveying all things bound in rule

The earth and people as his tool

And nothing but an aged fool

Yet still perhaps someday a man who'll

See the world for what it's worth

Embracing nature life and you

Jumper

Wise heart which now the willow brushed

By love and reason sometimes hushed

It lived and grew in entropy

Defying deformed symmetry

Where soul and body break their join

And no one's longing breaks the tide

On eyes once restless rests a coin

For the next elating ride

Exit

Thus is the way we all come and go

Many in strive of gain and success

Yet crown they will only remorses and woe

With a wish to have treasured more and less