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The Path to Rapture
A doorway empty and charred awaits Look in and see what you left behind Forgotten on the path to rapture…
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Among Their Numbers
Through a crowd his mind walks open And cannot recoil from the humanity it sees…
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Talk of Thunderstorms
When the door closed she showed me What was hidden behind her back A handful of fire that lit the walls with shadow And bathed our faces in twilight…
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What Defies the Senses
What defies the senses is music to a madman Without a song or a cry to heaven On the edge where lie a thousand broken mirrors Cast away by we who gazed upon the truth…
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Cardboard Crown
Anyone can buy enough wood to build a throne And sit upon it wearing a paper robe Head bowed beneath the weight of a cardboard crown…
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Fabled One
For years I scaled the tower wall Daring for a chance to feel the iron summit And when I reached the top I found you Lounging in starlight and commenting on the weather…
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Journey Through Strange Light
Waking from a journey through strange light The leering faces vivid in memory And the weight of that shadow still pressed against her…
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The Leading Edge of Time
There was a time when doorways opened onto new dimensions Far away from a reality slow to change Dark stairwells granted passage to slow horror Seeping between truth and dreams, melting them into one…
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A Sky Eclipsed
These voices speak in black and white Ink flowing like wine to the seas And a chorus out of harmony with the river…
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Assault of an Endless Sea
In the winter there came knocking at my door A voiceless fiend that would only point upward To a ceiling veined with wood rot and rusted nails…
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A Story on Blank Pages
Looking back through a book’s blank pages To find the story we wrote together I found that day we set off in search of something On a journey across the desert to kill a man…
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The Fate of all Who Wander
I see movement beyond this haze Something like a world rising out of the fog Pushing through gears to find the breach, The machinery that turns the clouds.
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We Are the Rebels
The king cried out war to the masses And war was delivered in parades through the streets Banners proclaiming destiny to follow to the ends of time And front lines slaughtered only miles away…
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Victory Over the Dead
Row upon row of carven wax faces In legion formation all out to the horizon Ready to fight a war against the hand that holds the scalpel…
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Light Beyond the Gate
Here is your mind on paper Ink and emptiness become you Each new thought scratched out and examined Long after you’ve forgotten you ever had it…
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Mitchel David Ring 