Lydia Lunch

Dread

Lydia Lunch


dread 
that subterranean world 
where one awakes from dread to dread 
sleep does not put an end to dread 
it's as if dread is both day and night
in a mobile disaster
which allows everything to remain twisted
in an endless twilight
perpetual limbo 
where every somnambulant second 
is plagued by that nightmarish preoccupation 
of one's own fears
fears made much too real
this close to the millennium
that final countdown to our own extinction
plundered into a reality from which one will never return
plundered into that shattered dreamscape 
of purgatory of paranoia, pestilence, petulance 
word becomes increasingly difficult to segregate
good from evil  
living from the living dead 
bleak panorama where not even death
not even death
offers release 
for what you wrought will come back to haunt
and haunt it does
what if death picks up where life left off
what if death picks up where life left off
death picks up where life left off  
an endless barrage of unbearable obstacles 
a god forsaken terrain 
where lost souls find even less mercy
no mercy 
and are still forced to reconcile 
with what was left undone
as if the struggle never ends 
the struggle never ends 
as if there is not now or ever peace
peace being foreign to our nature
the nature of the beast