I take your hand   We walk towards where the roses once grew      I lie back in the grass and dream of how it once was   The rubbishstrewn streets   Riperising smell of gutters and rain   The children abandoned   Mother recalls child in pool   What is that that lies? deadchilddead   I have such nightmares and you're all in all of them   It's worse than you or I can ever know      On the edge of the clouds we crouch   We smile and spit   The pool of saliva carrascates below our feet   It shifts   Children with knives begin to rise from it   They laugh and blow kisses at the moon      We think it's the rain   I see a bird move onto the table in my garden   Its beak scoops up the seeds   The green of the grass and the blue of the sky   Are immense and terrifying   Everything seems so close   So very very close   Should a storm come   Should a storm break and halo all around us   As some savage and blind god   Jerking his hands out to us   The birds drop all around us      I walk into the altar room   All the buddhas are smashed there   Avalokitesvara's hundred faces lie shattered   I have done this   I walk to the makeshift redbrick altar a hundred years ago   There is a small brass image there   I have built this   The red and black ants mill around   Unknown journeys   I take my lighter and torch them   I take my lighter and torch them   I weep, I weep   The ants scatter or writhe   I take my lighter and torch them torch them   I have done this   I am surrounded by butterflies   The chid's legs lay smashed   Please pray for him she says to me   Too late   Alas, oh so too late      I see the twinkling stars   I drop a photograph   I bend to pick it up   My heart leaps as i see your face   Stare up at me from the paper   As if still alive on this earth   When I return my eyes to the stars   They gathered   They pucker   And are blind   And are blind      So lost are we   Oh what have I become   I have become that I hate   I have become that I shall say no      The bird is dead now alas      A voice whispers to me   And says nothing nothing   There is nothing      I look to my right and see her face again   And again the world disappears      And all fall down   All fall down   All fall down I all fall down   All fall down I all fall down   We all fall down   We all fall down