"CRY FOR CRUCIFIXION"

I¹ve been so timid
I couldn¹t change the world
It¹s now right there sleeping in my arms
It¹s falling apart
It¹s mine.
Idleness and poverty and leisure
Incoming expressions of multiple courage
Inside, right there on its pillow
Indicate them if you wish.
It¹s been so really really long, my fear
I¹ve tried to resist but could not find the chance
In between, all those kicking tears have blown away
Inside, right there on its sleeping brain
Indeed, I¹ve been so brutally timid
I cannot change ­ I¹m featherless
Running on the streets with a loose manometer
Hanging around my neck ­ I¹ll change, dad, I promise
I¹ll change
If you wish never to respond again
To what I¹ve been through all along.
© 2002 Elias Toumasatos

"A JINXED SYMPHONY"

Shall we play now, or should we better
Leave our doomed dreams away
-where's the question, anyway?
Well, we'd better get started
We'll play for eternity
for the satyrs and our good Lord
for our mind and our feet
We'd better run now, run, can you hear me or not?
I've missed all that kind of cheap chastity
I'm longing for extravagant rebellions-
ruthless fountains of brotherhood and joy
Well, you'd better follow...
I've missed all that thrill under my skin
all those instrumental cries
all that felony never committed.
I'm sure you'll skip a heartbeat,once and for all
I'm prejudiced
We'd better start playing now
We'd better let our dreams roll
There's no carpet on the floor
I could swear I saw earth moving upwards
while looking all over,under my table
for some handful of wishful thinking
or even one single string for my cello
"Le ciel est bleu" - My French is bad
I could swear I've seen Strauss under my bed
right there next to my slippers
slipping away from his ouvertures
Well, doesn't he look like Annie Lennox
singing "Hey, Hey, I saved the world today"?
© 2002 Elias Toumasatos

"ANXIOUSLY I..."

Uttering essentials
Loving killing cheating yawning
Go for it go go
Rude as ever as ever now no, no
Truthful and skunky and greedy and ----
Lust in your head
Lost, safe and sound in some strange arms
Silent hugs ­ potential conspiracies discovering serenity
Won¹t you dare call me young again
Won¹t you ever shake my hand
Don¹t ever smile

Anxiously thou
Crossing the borders of loose exhausting habits
True ­ I¹ll sail this ship with ya, mine oh mine
Good wills and extortion and timid distinctions
Will tear us apart
Apart from behaving
Like solid crime monsters
Like awesome adversaries
Willing to prove
That nothing is hazy
That nothing has gone
They¹re just sound asleep
I¹ll never tell ya my secrets again
I¹ll never cross the line
I¹ll just erase it.
© 2002 Elias Toumasatos