voice: Tyler Messick, Joyce Saunders, Virgil Muir
bass: Brent Randall

a pity case
stained by
a nervous wreck -
beneath the face
deeper than
deep eyes
a dozen
strange
designs
hosted by
buried
chest
cries.

years of noise
churned into
silence -
a tight
faithless
grip
a stumbling mass
too terrified
to salvage
or leave behind
the shadowy skin
of a long
time.

morning seemed so far away.

then the quiet
lips of dawn
hailed a heartfelt
living song -
a showing clear
and straight through
up and out of
me and you
cut through
coulds and
shoulds and
loneliness
before scars
and tainted heels
before fire
on the battlefield
harmony sweetly rings.

like anything
that grows
like young
turning old
it's just 'knowing'
when you know
there's meat
on the bones
of loosing
so much weight
off this
pity case -
leave
behind
buried
chest
cries.

night turned in today.