Aish Tamid

The place lays phased like a warrior slayed

Engraved into the space with his sword still raised

Layers of charcoal sprayed through hallways

Praise relays off the walls echoing all ways

Dirt covered earth lays beneath my rib cage

Giving birth to overgrowth invading on to path ways

Burnt out trees cover streets where children once played

Sown seeds decay through sacred stepping stones in disarray

Where the alter used to be placed inter-changed for bloodstains

Sunrays illuminate the smoke filled haze

Trace of incense scents of sacrifice stayed

Aish tamid eternally

A fire burns continuously

Wondering where you been

Won't you come on home to me?

Flash back patches of grass growing wild in fact

Cracked walls burnt black like a kingdom sacked

Memories like artifacts attacked yet still intact

Melodies wrapped in glass and shatter with the impact

Air intermingling ringing with the singing

Of songs once sung, flung into the rafters

Catastrophe struck the sound stuck

Disaster plastered

The aftermath a blasted building once standing, like a starved man fasting

The skies expanding clouds passing, dust particles dancing

In broken bars of light, streaming from a shaft, slashed into the ceiling

Sshhhh, you could feel the ground breathing

Daughter of Zion is lying crying in the mist

Morning light slips in, shifting through the darkness

Like a morning wife reminisce having visions of her long gone prince

Memories drip rain drops tip towing emptiness

Intermixed with tears like fears left unfixed

Walls worn thin frozen fortress like dawn waiting for the sunrise of a day that got skipped

Like a life gone wrong wandering wilderness

Lovesick stripped abyss empty once luscious

Paint the scene so you could see, the city's picking up speed

On a bench 14th street, taxi's streaming yellow streaks

Spears piercing through my ears, you could hear the traffic speak

Jack hammers drill smacking through the cracking concrete

Buildings filled with windowsills spilled tangled telephone wires

Signs sparking neon lights flash like wild fire

My insides rise I start to feel paralyzed

Let out a sigh-a melody blew by- like an ancient war cry

The way the sunlight hit the trees it really caught my eye

Glistening' listening' to the breeze dancing' through the leaves

Freeze, the city move's in slow motion like a dream

I'm left empty like the temple turned into a fox den

Bus fumes dripping spitting into city summer sun

Sifting through the ash dimly lit vision listening

To the hiss lifting off a nighttime ocean

Shim, shim, shimmering singing hair on my skin

Glim, glim. Glimmering, whispering where ya been

From amidst the darkness set sail with the softness

Breeze traveling across the seas arisen from with in Mt. Zion

Wind coming in picking up momentum

Cutting crisply through the thickness riding on a rhythm

A rollercoaster sizzling, twisting down the mountain

Ripping rocket ship exploding like a fountain

Overflowing spilling through the courtyards of Jerusalem

Uncovering debris lifting up the fallen arisen within

To reach the yiddin even in Manhattan

Exposed menorah glowing in the shadows of destruction

Trailblazing through affliction

Brushing off the branches golden

Standing strong flames

Dancing like a lion roaring rising out of nothing