Kodama

Wash me in shadow
Pages in Clouds 2025


The night is wide and cold and deep,
A hollow place where secrets sleep.
I called for help, I begged the sky…
But only silence passed me by.


There’s no reply… no mercy near you.
You can scream in the darkness… no one will hear you.



You can scream in the darkness!
No one will hear you!
Tear your throat raw — it won't come near you!
Scream in the dark!
No one will hear you!
This void is your god now — let it steer you!


Alone with nothing, not even pain,
Just echo's bones and blacker rain.
No walls, no ground, no end, no birth—
Just floating rot beneath the earth.


You can scream — but it fades.
You can beg — but it betrays.
You can bleed — but no one sees.
The dark forgets… everything.


You can scream in the darkness!
No one will hear you!
No one. Will hear. You.
SCREAM IN THE DARK!
NO ONE WILL—
NO ONE WILL—
NO ONE—WILL—HEAR—YOU!


I whispered once…
I screamed for years…
And all I found
Was silence near.
You can scream in the darkness…
But no one will hear you.

pb2025

A Morbi Mask

Wash me in shadow

Artificial

Several years ago, I was on a business trip to Nairobi.  A couple of weeks later the attack on the Westgate mall happened.  At the time I was in the process of writing an espionage novel that took place throughout the world and parts of Kenya.  When I returned from that trip, I added a chapter that described that attack and how an American CIA agent who happened to be in that mall during the attack helped save a group of innocent children and parents who were trapped there.  The lyrics to this song are based on the writings in that chapter.   Visit us at www.RoadRunnerReverie.com and look for us on Youtube @RoadRunnerReverie.   Also that book is out there on Amazon for Kindle, titled "Back in the Game."

Thnks!
- Bill

Alchemy Alice

Rishloo