• In the abandoned house of a broken heart
    All windows are boarded up-
    Still this Will will not give up:
    Windscreen Man, unrepetitioned, comes apart.

    The thousand-year man slaughter
    Has memorized his name:
    Man Of War, Man Of Water-
    Tomorrow begets the same.

    The fire-cloaked day now comes to rest-
    Fate's warning could not heed-
    Prayers and midnight dares are but a test-
    An animal magnetism we could not concede.

    On the heathen stare, a wind-
    A secret message can be heard:
    "Life is but a proving ground,
    An apple tree, a place of final words
    Not yet to be..."