Ian Narcisi

Forever Today

Written By: Ian Narcisi

The smell of silence comes
Over rivers crying
Beneath the sea is dark
Above the mountains sighing

Run to the womb of the stars all around
but they’re gone
Run to the purpose of what you’ve become
but you’re lost
The tangling of vines in your head rot away
farewell
The silence you knew of before speaks today
Forever today

From the mist of the cold night it comes
Colored lights intertwining
Blue shades and patterns fill the air
All along your mind is fighting

Run with us spirit with eyes full of green
it’s too cold
Glide to the edges of all inbetweens
it’s too far
Break through all barriers that cloud all the clear
it’s too late
Shake the foundations and swallow the tears
and bottle your fears

Veil

Written By: Ian Narcisi

Round and round in cycles
Cut off from my trail
A steady breeze approaches
The lifting of the veil

Empathetic ignorance a clouded Mind now free
Of never ending questions
Of pathways lost at sea

A longing now to rise above
A wall that is not me
To question all that keeps me down
And burns all sides of me

Exposing the free

Wedged between shear happiness and battles all gone wrong
Of places where I do fit in and where I don't belong
No longer lost and frightened
No longer tightly wound
I’ve broken through the challenge and now it's time to be

Open to free

Violet And Blue

Written By: Ian Narcisi

Calm your restless soul, it’s alright
Jumbled nerves, a soulless state, a plight
Brought before a glowing ball of white
Lose yourself the solid you of sight
Was forged again from fairy tales
A lie

In between the violet and the blue
is true

Roses blooming fast above your head
Fragrantly reminding of you of red

Snow capped silence, bitter all around
The crown

Tattered answers scattered to and fro
Grabbing sight of everything alone

Lost within once was and who is who

Balanced on a blade of what to do

In between the violet and blue
is true

Throw It Away

Written By: Ian Narcisi

6 a.m the sun was dawning
Dragonflies in her eyes
A mind now thawing

The door is open now to a world of dark and light
Let your spirit sail on freely
into the night

Images in her head swimming in circles (all the endless circles of light and night)
But the passage way’s gone
no pinks, no purples (only a stroke away)

No more excuses now
Don’t ignore what was given to you
What is speaking inside has a purpose
Follow through

Back in the light it all seems so perfect
A simple voice in your head and
you’ve chosen to burn it

All along in your head it was right
But the pain here to stay
Your beam of light’s now dimming
You’ve thrown it away

Burning

Written By: Ian Narcisi

Burning sensation overhead
And the wheels of progress roll ahead
Lightning scars the landscape running deep
And the window’s always half alseep

Rain falls hard and dims the view
A blackness roars above no longer blue
Breaking all the rules
And the autumn wind comes soon

Rivers of cigarette buts fill the streets
Plastic bags launched helpless through the trees
An encroaching mossy mattress hugs a stone
While in the distance lurks a snail inside its home

Flowers iridescent thank the sky
As a row of parking meters slowly cry
Watching time go by
As the storm decides to die

And all silence goes to sleep
As the landscape starts to breathe
In a gale a flagpole rides
A resurgence from all sides

Broken rays of sunlight find their way beneath the clouds
As a haze begins its ascent wafting slowly through the crowds

Just a thread within the loom

Trouble Free

Written By: Ian Narcisi

Trouble me

A walk in the park after dark
There is sight between dark and light

Trouble free

In the stillness of it all one grows tall
Once punctured and pitted

An inside glance alters the outside dance

Trouble free

Reflections both ways keeps the mind at bay
A stitch of time - a rhyme

And within us is what we are

Forever Today

Written By: Ian Narcisi

The smell of silence comes
beneath the sea is dark
above the mountains sighing

Run to the womb of the stars all around
but they’re gone
run to the purpose of what you’ve become
but you’re lost
the tangling of vines in your head rot away
farewell
the silence you knew of before speaks today
forever today

From the mist of the cold night it comes
colored lights intertwining
blue shades and patterns fill the air
all along your mind is fighting

Run with us spirit with eyes full of green
but it’s cold
glide to the edges of all inbetweens
it’s too far
break through all barriers that cloud all the clear
it’s too late
shake the foundations and swallow the tears
and bottle your fears

Twilight's Last

Written By: Ian Narcisi

Is there something out there waiting?
Closing in beyond the outer mind

Is it all here for our taking?
Or will it grab us all up from behind?

We toss and turn
We slash and burn
They glow and fade
We walk away

A leaf that shivers in the breeze
Surrounding conscious to its knees

Blackend Skies
And stars descend
We dance around the bitter end

It’s up to all and all must live in the now

Did they know it from our entry?
Watching from the side lines in disguise
Have we grown up through the centuries
Smiling all the while with velvet eyes

The splitting saneness in our heads
Closets open in our beds

The stealthy changing of the guard
Surface battered, sold and scared

We close our eyes when told to see
Push away the harmony

A reckoned soul eclipsed by pure fantasy

Little Bit

Written By: Ian Narcisi

Take a little bit
Take a little bit more

Take a little bit
All this wasted time focusing on ourselves
Take a little bit more
All this wasted life separated from ourselves

Ruthless minded play-things on a planet
Covered in soil

Talk behind the back of inner meaning
Tongue from a coil

Absorb themselves in the thick of a wall
Distancing all

Rise above your inner meaning
Feeling...
Healing...

Make a little bit
Make a little bit more

Make a little bit
All this wasted time focusing on ourselves
Make a little bit more
All this wasted life separated from ourselves

Sand dunes rise above all assets
Leaving behind

Seeds of truth amongst the planted
Into the night

Gleams a starry scape
A knowing place
A placid race

Intertwine all thought to meaning
Feeling....
Healing....

Sparkle and Shine

Written By: Ian Narcisi

In the morning it's cold

Laughter in the catacomes - alone

Blurry landscapes from a lie

Swelling of the bitterness inside

In a waking moment it is gone

Flooding every after thought with song

Baskets woven backwards come undone

Blackened stares and ridged glares to none

Calling all cars there's a ripple

Splitting the wall to a trickle

Out from within bursts a soul

And it must grow

Out from all inner

Sparkle and shine

Sudden awareness from all sides

Meanders through the alley ways of mind

Your world is now changing

Its path - rearranging

With sunlight emerging

Aliveness is surging

Far behind the past dims out of site

In with all new beacons to view

A life once impossible is true

The tide from before recedes from
the shore

A sudden, swift current abandons your oars

The time has come

For all to awake

To smell and to take beyond the divine

So let it all go and sparkle and shine