Who has the energy has the power

Who has the energy has the power 
and makes the decision, conserve or devour.

Who has the energy rules whether schools 
produce educated citizens or ignorant fools.

Who has the energy controls Congress 
and who does and does not have access.

Who has the energy gets to pick 
is that or not a law of physics?

Who has the energy for us bequeath 
what children eat, drink, and breathe.

Who has the energy gets to state 
yes or no to a people-friendly climate.

Who has the energy makes the statement, 
whether there's democracy in government.

Who has the energy are whom we adore 
and we make this country of, by, and for.

Who has the energy on this sunny day? 
It's you and I, or that's what I pray.

Charles Ashurst 2015 8 13 edited 2022 8 21 and 2022 10 26 and 2024 6 24

who has the energy has the power 2022 10 26

Go away from my window
this is no place for thee
I just want to sit and read Ecclesiastes on my own so
please leave me in peace

You say I don't know what you've been through
and you're quite right, I don't
but there's such a thing as solitude which I'd
like to bestow

So don't you dare prompt me
with such wicked schemes
laced with servility and
contradictory, silly bounds

Created sick
commanded to be sound

I decline to be spoken to
in that tone of voice, you see
I don't want eternal peace and love
let alone - no choice

I just like a few moments by myself
to contemplate
on sex and death, music and life
and some other things aswell

So don't you dare prompt me
with these wishthinking dreams
packed with stupidity and
countless laws so slyly compelled

Created ill
commanded to be well

Go away from my window
you're blocking my light
I'm only halfway through The Song of Songs so
get out of my sight

and don't you dare prompt me
with such wicked schemes
laced with servility and
contradictory, silly bounds

Created sick
commanded to be sound

Created Sick, Commanded To Be Sound

Why I'm so happy
today I shaved my head
though I'm wonderin
what my friends will say about

my 6 mm buzz

well that's what you get when
you neglect to brush your teeth
yeah that's what you get for
chewing gum in your sleep

a slumped sleepless sigh
makes a fitting goodbye

goodbye

I could swear them drainpipes
were burping
aloud

-burp-

Why so tired?
today you've done nothing
save carressing
what's left upon that scalp
and brush them dry flakes
off of the lashes of thine eye

see them tumbling down,
down to the ground
and frown
oh ol' freak flag of mine

goodbye

I could swear them drainpipes
were clogging
bawling, burping
and choking and squawking
about

chewing gum in my sleep
chewing gum in your sleep

6 Mm Buzz

Of all the fools in this world
you are one of them
Of all those boots that you tear so well
I can wear none of them

So brush that dust
right of your shoes
and save yourself the trouble when
the present's offering you a clue saying
I would never I would never
No I would never mistreat my own
dignity or solar plexus
nor neglect whatever that perplexes
the solitary wanderer
the vagabond existing on the borders
of nowhere
How the city sit solitary
that was full of people
how is she become as a widow?
I do not know

I do not know...

Know I would never mistreat her no
you say that now for all you know
the greatest tool for fools affirms that
I would never I would never
Would you ever let yourself
be filled and drunk on all the bitterness
that consumes of all
the wormwood and the gall
remember Ieremia's affliction and misery
be filled with all the tenderness
the signs of kind affection
and the innocence of the small

How the city sit solitary
that was full of people
How is she become as a widow
I do not...

The Lesser of Fools

Cordelia
All your memorabilia
have been kept safe
and locked away
until this day
I hand it over to you
now that wheel
to which you were bound
is no longer on fire

Cordelia
I'm releasing you
Cordelia
All the more all the same
graceful in mine eye
yes I'm sure
your love is more
ponderous than your tounge
could ever conspire

Cordelia
Unlike Ophelia
and those harpee sisters
in your midst
forever foul and never fair
with neither inkling nor a clue
that it is your lips
men wishes to seal with righteous kiss
but you're tired
are you not
dear daughter of Lear

Howl

Your beauty puts my poems on par
with the talking ravens in the tower

Kraa...

Howl

Sacrifice

Poison

Loyalty

Through a tunnel full of light
I would move at the fastest pace
Through my own eyes
I can see this gigantic space

At the speed of light
I could remain longer
Than the night
And walk until it's dawn


X-rays light
And in a crackle blast
Through my eyes
Rendering me blind


I see the light 
Through the scope
Of space at night
And I would throw a rope

To climb and ascend
To the endless space
A place of light and bliss
That the night would leave me


X-rays light
And in a crackle blast
Through my eyes
Rendering me blind

X-rays light
And in a crackle blast
Through my eyes
Rendering me blind

Away from the blight
Now I will rise
Through the eye
Of a sun that shines

X Ray

Do you even know

Close your eyes

Love Varg - Songwriter & variety singer, illustrator, herbalist, poet and allegedly, a dancer as well - originally from Gotland (*1988), primarily based in Stockholm. Musically active since his 15th summer, Love Varg initially played the percussion and immediately also learned how to sing and play guitar (in subsequent years; the harmonica, ukulele and some piano as well). Main influences were W. A. Mozart, Kurt Cobain and Bob Dylan, and to a lesser but significant extent, Leonard Cohen, Velvet Underground & Nico, Sibylle Baier and others.  
Since May 2008 Love Varg has made many performances at hundreds of concert venues in a host of capacities and constellations, in various cities around the world, for example, Montréal, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Zagora and Varanasi, however, mainly in Stockholm and Visby, the town of his birth. Through the 2010's and 20's he has recorded and released nine albums.

DISCOGRAPHY
Love Varg (2011) - 10 tracks
Tragedier & Travestier (2012) - 8 tracks
Fellow Primates (2014) - 10 tracks
Papa Ol' Regime (2016) - 8 tracks
Hall of Crows: 8 New Songs (2018) - 8 tracks
New Pier Review: Outtakes (2023) - 5 tracks 
Detta Genom Natt & Dag (2023) - 14 tracks
Another Side Of Love (2023) - 15 tracks
Songs From Obscurity (2024) - 11 tracks
New Pier Review: Volume I (2025) - 8 tracks

Created Sick, Commanded To Be Sound

Love Varg

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