London Rain by Jonas Hyde Twilight’s tears pelt against the panes of my eyes. For you I weep on this eve my love, listening to the sound of London rain. The pouring, streaming sleet outside, dances in concert with my own rivers of sorrow. It was said when somebody knows you, there is no...
Renaissance by Jonas Hyde
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Goodbye
Goodbye by Jonas Hyde I swallow the sorrow, and borrow a smile, to make it through each day, but decay has eroded my soul, leaving a lifeless shell, which fell to the void, passing through the motions, the oceans of life, toward the valley of death, my breath suffocates rapt ‘neath this guise, my...
Eternal Sleep
Eternal Sleep by Jonas Hyde Eternal sleep, release me from my mortal coil, close my eyes, and let fore’er wash me away. I am so tired, of all my suffering, I want to shed out all vestige of my humanity, I need to make it through this day. Tho’ I know I wont, for...
The Tale of You
The Tale of You by Jonas Hyde Late last eve, my daughter came to me, for the first time in ever it seems, asking for a tale, woven with the fabric of her youth. It had been since those nights, so many years ago in fact, when I was last asked, to complete such...
Familiar Stranger
Familiar Stranger by Jonas Hyde In this moment, my heart is weak, why is it hard to say, what we both want to speak, an ocean of fear, a breath and a tear, a beautiful thing, life could be, if I would ever know, the familiar stranger, so far away…
Sleep Watcher
Sleep Watcher by Jonas Hyde Darkened room you lie, through the veil I watch you. Breathing soft and harmonious, I count each swing of your pendulum. Warmth radiates from your soul, blanketing my own cold body. Scent and hair lay soft ‘pon thy pillow, entrap my heart this eve. You sleep whilst I weep,...
The Tempter’s Gift
The Tempter’s Gift by Jonas Hyde My soul is trapped in this darkness alone, claimed merely a breath ‘pon being due. The night mare led the carriage of my damnation, long ‘fore my nous could prepare, offering no chance for my ain redemption. Eternal pain I bear, the skin of my sin. Can one...
O’ Brother
O’ Brother by Jonas Hyde “O’ brother where art thou?” a line of mirth true, tho’ my pain is known by so few. Can you hear me now? Its been fore’er and a night more since I have talked with you. Are you with me? They say you are, yet you feel so far,...
The Veil
The Veil by Jonas Hyde Here I stand so still, lost of all my will, trapped within this self I have longed to flee, fact to Death I oft begged- ‘please come for me’, but with pleas ignored, I drew my ain sword, and with steel to self I since came to be. Tho’...
Fires of our Freedom – The Ballad of Old Glory
Fires of our Freedom – The Ballad of Old Glory by Jonas Hyde Keep in thought this moment of breath, And remember this eve, Countrymen, my brothers I implore, For morrow’s dawn shall offer freedom or death, As on this eve’s twilight, all shall hear Glory’s roar. Together we stand from shore to shore,...
