A Puppet's Fated Dance
Caught in an eternal puppet's dance
As if pulled by fate's ethereal strands
Controlling my moves maintaining my stance
My heart is placed in your unknowing hands
A heart of wood but a heart none the less
Splintered and jagged but beats as it should
With a kind word and a gentle caress
You alone, can save this heart made of wood.
But the comfort and warmth this love would bring
Like scissors gleaming with a razor's edge
Waiting to cut each and every thin string
Caught between love and oblivion's ledge.
With strings cut I can no longer stand tall,
Will you be there to catch me when I fall?
She's crying out the blues again
Reaching for the booze again
Lying to my face again
Then walking out the door.
I'm biting back my rage again
Fighting off the hate again
Punching all the walls again
then falling to the floor.
The ringing of the phone again
Asking why she's gone again
Bitching in my ear again
I know what they call for.
Caught between the two again
Wanting me to choose again
waiting to be used again
What a fool they take me for.
--1--
With crooked smile and leathered wings,
The lord of night did listen
To pain filled screams of dying things
And each pointed fang did glisten.
--2--
He gave a most beguiling smile
Coaxing the earth to open wide
Giggling madly all the while
You were lowered down inside.
--3--
With amorphous hands and blank face
I reach across time and space
My hand around your neck I place
and your life I erase.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a movie based off the novel of the same name by Dito Montiel, who also directs the film itself. The plot of the film follows a younger Dito as he comes of age in a bad neighborhood in Queens, New York and how the people close to him shaped him into the person he is. This is all dispersed amongst scenes of an older Dito returning back to his neighborhood after 20 years, and remembering what those people meant to him.
The plot itself is rather simple but the true depth lies within the characters themselves.
The film seems disjointed and a little hard to follow at some p