the final church

		in the moonlight
		by the sea
		in a country
		in a town
		now quickly
		now slowly
		now in pain
		now in love
		
		in different shapes
		when i was young
		when i was young
		i used to dream
		and the wind blows
		and the owl sings
		and dogs are driven wild
		and dogs break their chains
		and run through the lands
		a prey to madness
		with wild eyes dying
		with wild eyes burning
		they raise their heads
		they swell their cold necks
		like a cat that's ripped its guts
		like a hungry child's breath
		like a woman about to give birth
		like a young girl singing
		at the stars in the north
		at the stars in the south
		at the stars in the west
		at the stars in the east
		at the moon
		at the mountains
		at the rocks
		at the pain
		at the thief
		at the snakes
		
		reveal their black black backs
		fresh flesh
		glazed eyes stare
		from long pale human faces
		we cannot satisfy the hopes
		we are now dead
		we are all dead
		
		the hammer breaks the anvil
		
		from the cleft of its hood
		it was fair as morning and full of heaven dew
		then it put on darkness declined its softness
		and put on th symptoms of its sickly age
		it bowed its head and broke its stalk
		it lost its leaves and all its beauty
		falling to weeds and unknown faces
		of man and woman
		the black heritage
		of worms and serpents
		rottenness
		and cold discharge
		out beauty is now so changed
		my friends
		
		by violence and secret influence
		the aspect of a star and the stink of a mist
		by emissions of a cloud
		the meeting of a vapour
		
		by the fall of a chariot and the stumbling at a stone
		by a full meal or an empty stomach
		by watching at wine or by watching at prayers
		by the sun or the moon
		by a heat or a cold
		by sleepless nights or sleeping days
		by water frozen
		to the hardness of a dagger
		or water thawed into the floods of a river
		by a hair or a current
		by violent motion
		by sitting still
		or severely
		by dissolution
		by God's mercy
		or God's anger
		
		we take pains to heap up things useful to our life
		and get our deaths in the purchase and the person is
		snatched away and the goods remain and all this is
		the law and constitution of nature unveiled it is a 
		punishment to our sins
		
		the unalterable event of providence and the decree of
		Heaven