Less Than Eternity

Burn your flags
Cut your ties
And pack your bags
Pack them light
For we desert
Reality tonight
Speeding through causeways and battlefields
Til our quest for the best
Aspirations and worst fears yields
A faraway place
In which to rest our case
Another world there
Beyond this nightmare
Have you too heard of fantastic landscapes
Have you too passed through this night
Shaped by flutters of golden wings
About the swinging orb of imagination?
Beyond the goods and evils
Of the immediate moment
There’s another place
Detached from pleasure and pain
A monumentally deep well
From which to draw resource
I have yet to find it a name
I play a role there, but it’s no game
It’s where i find that extra footstep
That one more sharp breath
It’s where i escape life
Without turning to death
A haven other than heaven
A resting place to dwell
Between two sessions of hell
Peace may take a while
To come, but between you and me
I think that i believe
It’ll take a day or two
Less than eternity