Crimson sky

 I submit that there is no God
That there is no future
In the world after now or before
Where coffins lower
Black is the colour
Only a bird across a crimson sky

There is a head full of lead
A body filled with tumour
A leg full of pain
A heart full of ache
In the desert of mankind
Only a bird across a crimson sky

There she walks, there
In the white shroud of a Holy Ghost
Coughing and choking
Stamping her feet for God
As she lays in the tumour of despair hearing only
Only a bird across a crimson sky  

White smoke on a day they called Death
Black smoke out the chimney
Grey smoke in lungs suffocate
A cat escapes fate, for
There in the cemetery of life flies
Only a bird across a crimson sky

Madness paints its last picture
Sanity casts a plea
God where are you today
Where were you yesterday
Tomorrow, I beseech you, only
Only a bird across a crimson sky


Death has come
Only a bird across a crimson sky