Richard Charles Stevens Fusions

In August 2014, I wrote one of my very first poems, I Can. Can Do is its spiritual successor. The original version, titled I Can—Reprise, has been published in All of Me Vol. V, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Don’t Go (Hyper on Experience Remix) by Awesome 3. Featured art is by Carlos Quevedo.

Listen to Can Do by Richard Charles Stevens (Go-Go Suite)

I cannot take away the pain
Explain away its meaning
Cannot lay awake at night
When I am best placed dreaming
Cannot speak of only light
When I possess a shadow
Navigate a heart’s maze
When its plaintive pathway narrows
.

I cannot always be the one
To pick up all the pieces
Cannot raise the stakes
Until the failure rate decreases
Guarantee rotation
As each memory releases
See the heavens blue
To do just as the devil pleases

.

Cannot see the sense
In feeling less immense affection
Can’t sit on the fence
Unless I’m pensive in reflection
Will not play the blame game
Name and shame each misconception
As essentially
That’s eighth grade condescension
.

I cannot reinvent the wheel
Don’t have the time
Besides
For every time the clock stops dead
Said wheel is redefined
I cannot walk a line designed to blind me to my purpose
Be confined to mortal life
To normalise the circus
.
See my mind reorganised
By ties that bind to hurt us
Deny the sight of thoughtful eyes
When all the while these thoughts of mine
Immortalise divine right to resurface
(I can)
.

I can chase any dream
Wide awake or asleep
I can call out the spineless
Then raise them a spleen
Can gaze at the stars
With both feet on the ground
I can hop
I can skip
I can leap
And I can bound
Be profound when I‘m thinking
Stand proud when I’m shrinking
Avow no belief
I need drown when I’m sinking
.
Be profound when I‘m thinking
Stand proud when I’m shrinking
Avow no belief
I need drown when I’m sinking
.

I can love to no end
To great length extend kindness
In many respects this can help prevent blindness
I can set reminders if such you allow
Proceed with politeness to honour a vow
.

I can clear a cheery space
For a tear upon my face
Should I chase every solitary dream
Be graceful when falling and all-in when rising to prize the high tide that I breach
I can lay sprawled out on a gorgeous white beach
Feel cool water refresh my bare feet
I can be we
If we truly believe
That I say every word that we mean

I can live and let live
Blow a kiss before dying
Give freely
Sincerely
When taken from blindly
Beneath every sneer
Can translate a late smile
Need not wait
For I hear
It’s been here all the while
.
I can (multiple repeat)
.

I can be seen clean through
In each colour and hue
When encouraged to flourish anew
Can feel every last soul that I hold in my keep
And believe they can summon me too
I can tell you that I love you
Mean it every time I do
All you need do is believe it to be true
.
I can be the destined friend
Request no end disclosed
Lend caress to beds of roses
Dress in splendid robes
Wear rings on my fingers
Have a bell for all ten toes
Share intelligence as to where best the garden grows

I can disprove all illusions in my wake if I negate to let them dictate play and breakaway from latent human traits
Take the late commuter train
To new terrain
Some way from wasteful sewer drains
And drain all fluids too reduced to jubilate
.
Can say my name
And mean it
See fit halfway to esteem it
Should I part ways with the hard way and depart to some place scenic
Then my heart can praise in ways encyclopaedic
The gaze of angels at my table
Fabled to redeem it
.

You can place great faith in me
To paint a famed scene tastefully
Reclaim the many years that very nearly got away from me
Should fears be unmistakably severe
Then here’s an idea
I can veer towards just cause to weep elatedly
I can wake from deepest sleep and take this as vacation leave
And every one of you can do the same as me

(You Can)
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Beyond Shadow Lay Virtue pays homage to Utopia (Liftin’ Spirits Remix) by New Decade.

Listen to Beyond Shadow Lay Virtue by Richard Charles Stevens (Utopia Suite)

I never doubted
There was more to life
Than mortal ties that bind
I never doubted
The importance lies
In gorgeous eyes
Refined
I never doubted
The enormous size
Of thoughts divine immortalised
I never doubted reasons why
Wild horses shied advance
For I dismounted
Placed my sword aside
And cauterised the scars
Of every score assigned the shoreline of my heart
Yes I dismounted
Placed my sword aside
And cauterised the scars
Of every score assigned the shoreline of my heart
.
I never doubted
That the end commended start
As I rerouted the direction of the stars
Affectionate remembrance seemed the best I could aspire to glance
Through spectacles comprised of slanted glass
.
I never doubted
.
I never doubted
Intuition
As it led explicitly to chance
.
I never doubted
Each incision bled in tread to unequivocally enhance
.
I never doubted fears rerouted
Led to here where I feel grounded
Here where hearty cheers are sounding
Each sincere to keep me bounding
Never doubted
Evolution
Bred to outlive
Deep contusions
Better dress the ruins of the heart
.
I never doubted fears rerouted
Led to here where I feel grounded
Here where hearty cheers are sounding
Each sincere to keep me bounding
Never doubted
Evolution
Bred to outlive
Deep contusions
Better dress the ruins of the heart
.
I never doubted
.
I never doubted
Problems were solutions to be sought
Foregone conclusion
Constituted truth when overwrought
I never doubted
People change
Remained devout
To keep apace
For either way
They’d bleed the same
Cut short
.
Much sooner persevere than jeer each failed attempt and vent dissatisfaction
.
Much sooner wait than bolt the gate
Seek fault in traits and castigate
Exasperating any means of traction
.
I never doubted
Actions spoke more candidly than words
Although I never felt great urge to scream and shout
For I needed not be heard to make a sound
And I never doubted
How to be profound
May not gain a crowd
But I still bleed the same devout
That I was right to stand my ground and stick around
.
I never doubted
That the end commended start
As I rerouted the direction of the stars
Affectionate remembrance seemed the best I could aspire to glance
Through spectacles comprised of slanted glass
.
I never doubted
.
I never doubted
Intuition
As it led explicitly to chance
.
I never doubted
Each incision bled in tread to unequivocally enhance
.
I never doubted fears rerouted
Led to here where I feel grounded
Here where hearty cheers are sounding
Each sincere to keep me bounding
Never doubted
Evolution
Bred to outlive
Deep contusions
Better dress the ruins of the heart
.
I never doubted fears rerouted
Led to here where I feel grounded
Here where hearty cheers are sounding
Each sincere to keep me bounding
Never doubted
Evolution
Bred to outlive
Deep contusions
Better dress the ruins of the heart
.
I dismounted
Placed my sword aside
And cauterised the scars
Of every score assigned the shoreline of my heart
Yes I dismounted
Placed my sword aside
And cauterised the scars
Of every score assigned the shoreline of my heart
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Weave pays homage to Celebration Generation by Westbam.

Listen to Weave by Richard Charles Stevens (Celebration Generation Suite)

the only war
worth fighting for
exists within ourselves
the only cause
worth dying for
is written in our cells
for only fools abide the kind of lies that overwhelm
the kind that kiss our lips
and then flat decline to tell
.
somewhere deep in our personal hells
is the longing and needing for all to end well
war is attrition
and such malnutrition
will see our souls bound by abounding condition
refusing permission to live and let live
we take from the one source reported to give
taught that only god forgives
we wait for an epiphany
when all the time we’re sitting on divinity
thinking hostility constitutes industry
sinking in quicksand
disbanded from infantry
standing alone
we condone our own bigotry
choke on our own bile’s astringency
.
somewhere deep in our personal hells
are the tools we can use to reduce our deficiency
should we peruse with renewed versatility
we can move mountains with ease
.
we can allude to the true connectivity
lending salute to the trees
for every branch dances when glancing the breeze
and herein lies heart of the weave
.
the only love worth striving for
is pure of resolution and belief
the only truth worth pining for
is one unspun of lips that bleed relief
for only eyes that cry confide the secrets in our keep
river wild comprising ocean deep
.
only eyes that cry confide the secrets in our keep
river wild comprising ocean deep
.
somewhere deep in our personal hells
are reasons to kiss and permission to tell
here is the epiphany
for privy are the beams
to the one dream unequivocally serene
.
the only war
worth fighting for
entitles us to finding inner peace
letting go of tears revered
to catch them
then release
feed the roots of every tree
for they make sweet
the air we breathe
the only cause
worth dying for
is written in their cells
indeed it’s written in ourselves
in hearts we weave
for eyes that cry can testify the secrets in our keep
river wild comprising ocean deep
.
the only love worth striving for
is pure of resolution and belief
.
the only truth worth pining for
is one unspun of lips that bleed relief
.
should we peruse with renewed versatility
we can move mountains with ease
.
we can allude to the true connectivity
lending salute to the trees
for every branch dances when glancing the breeze
and herein lies heart of the weave
.
every branch dances when glancing the breeze
and herein lies heart of the weave
.

weave
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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The original version of We has been published in All of Me Vol. IV, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Sweet Sensation by Shades of Rhythm.

Listen to We by Richard Charles Stevens (Sweet Sensation Suite)

charmed
charmed
charmed
.
charmed
charmed
charmed
.
we are
kings and queens
we are
butterflies and bees
we are
lions wolves and mice
lionesses and the like
we are light
we are shade
every flavour in-between
we are night
we are day
we are seen
.
we are
kings and queens
we are
butterflies and bees
we are
lions wolves and mice
lionesses and the like
we are light
we are shade
every flavour in-between
we are night
we are day
we are seen
.
we are bruised
we are scarred
we are battle hardened veterans
thriving through artistry
striving for betterment
bleeding through arteries
each a new masterpiece
this is why our hearts so gently weep
we skip heartily through leaves
which breathe beneath bare feet
we are charmed by the breeze
as we glance passing trees
kissing branches
we are artists
with the very farthest reach
stretched across river wild to ocean deep
.
we are whispers
we are screams
we are every waking dream
we are castles in the sky
we are treasures of the deep
we are meek
we are mild
we are wild and obscene
we are night
we are day
we are seen
.
we are keen to be remembered
by the embers in our trail
every bleed we prevail
is a season to hail
spring
summer
fall
winter
all four breathed anew
feel not bitter when we wither
yet are sweeter when we bloom
.
sweeter when we bloom
sweeter when we bloom
feel not bitter when we wither
yet are sweeter when we bloom
.
sweeter when we bloom
sweeter when we bloom
feel not bitter when we wither
yet are sweeter when we bloom
.
we are naked in our gowns
dress the greatest of renown
we are kings
we are queens
with no need to sport crowns
we are here
we are there
we are lost
we are found
we are vocal in our silences
unspoken wired to sound
.
(charmed)
unspoken wired to sound
(charmed)
unspoken wired to sound
.
we are everything
and nothing less
when suffering for art
we wear our curses
yet feel blessed
when gently weeping hearts
.
gently weeping hearts
gently weeping hearts
gently weeping
gently weeping
gently weeping hearts
.
we are first light
we are very last dance
we are day
we are night
when we leave the rest to chance
we are pure
we are love
we fall down to rise above
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
.
Frowns are merely gowns we wear when running late for balls
Crowns of thorns are less severe in decorative jewels
Autumn leaves can still take flight when victimised by Fall
Ocean breeze delighted in when arctic hearts are warmed
Destiny need not vacate when fate hath been forewarned
Advantageousness need not be so denied and scorned
Favour need not waiver rights to sight the manor born
Disclaimer need not countersign despairing of the mourned
Life need not be nearly the whodunnit that they covet
Need to seek the angels who will cradle us
Enable us to turn the tables on the cruellest fate and overcome it
Overcome it
Overcome it
oh-oh-oh-oh-Overcome it
.
we are whispers
we are screams
we are every waking dream
we are castles in the sky
we are treasures of the deep
we are meek
we are mild
we are wild and obscene
we are night
we are day
we are seen
.
we are keen to be remembered
by the embers in our trail
every bleed we prevail
is a season to hail
spring
summer
fall
winter
all four breathed anew
feel not bitter when we wither
yet are sweeter when we bloom
we are naked in our gowns
dress the greatest of renown
we are kings
we are queens
with no need to sport crowns
we are here
we are there
we are lost
we are found
we are vocal in our silences
unspoken wired to sound
we are first light
we are very last dance
we are day
we are night
when we leave the rest to chance
we are pure
we are love
we fall down to rise above
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
.
we are forevermore enough
for we are charmed
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Tighten pays homage to Sweet Sensation (Origin8a & Propa Remix) by Shades of Rhythm. Title art is by Don Alberto Carlos.

Listen to Tighten by Richard Charles Stevens (Sweet Sensation Suite)

I only have one wish this day
To steal your grievous pain away
Feel each twinge on your behalf
And darn the fringes of your heart to weave in pride of place a famed ellipsis
Replacing any tears erased with kisses

.
Hold you in my arms and charm the sun into the skies that I enlighten
Watch it rise like silent tide within your timeless eyes and see them brighten
All the while your grip on mine shall infinitely tighten

All the while your grip on mine shall infinitely tighten
(Titan)
.
I only have one wish this day
To see you stray from lonesome path
Surpass the loathsome air of waif
And wear with grace your open heart
Trace the tasteful contours of your telltale heart with tender warmth
Declare it safe to venture forth
And take up exponential form
.
Imparting blessing merged in twine
His and hers to verse divine
Shall take your nervous hand in mine
And read to you by candlelight
.

Shall take your nervous hand in mine
And read to you by candlelight

.
No senses taking leave
For all of me I give not to receive
Simply love to slumber midst the breeze each time your name it breathes
Taking me to places unbeknownst that boast a vacancy
Where only we decide the chosen masonry

.

A love like ours

One so profound

Need not stamp feet to stand its ground

For each unique beat see us bound

To where twin kingdom hearts are crowned

.
Each unique beat see us bound

To where twin kingdom hearts are crowned
.
Our love is not a mystery
But history repeating
Less tempestuous be the sea when leisurely proceeding
Togetherly we weather each storm tethered to the treasure
Wherein our names engraved remain forever
(Together)
.

I only have one wish this day
To steal your grievous pain away
Feel each twinge on your behalf
And darn the fringes of your heart

To weave in pride of place a famed ellipsis
Replacing any tears erased with kisses
.
Hold you in my arms and charm the sun into the skies that I enlighten
Watch it rise like silent tide within your timeless eyes and see them brighten
All the while your grip on mine shall infinitely tighten
All the while your grip on mine shall infinitely tighten

.
Hand-picked cloves from deepest souls
Residual in surrealist charm
Instinctive in its fearless psalm
Our ocean of devotion calms
Never one unspoken glance
Music of most doting chance
Tightening our open palms
We glide astride a knowing path
.
Hand-picked cloves from deepest souls
Residual in surrealist charm
Instinctive in its fearless psalm
Our ocean of devotion calms
Never one unspoken glance
Music of most doting chance
Tightening our open palms
.
A love like ours

One so profound

Need not stamp feet to stand its ground

For each unique beat see us bound

To where twin kingdom hearts are crowned

.
A love like ours

One so profound

Need not stamp feet to stand its ground

For each unique beat see us bound

To where twin kingdom hearts are crowned

.
I only have one wish this day
To steal your grievous pain away
Feel each twinge on your behalf
And darn the fringes of your heart

To weave in pride of place a famed ellipsis
Replacing any tears erased with kisses
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Lounge Act pays homage to Hardcore Will Never Die by Q-Bass.

Listen to Lounge Act by Richard Charles Stevens (Never Die Suite)

I found a tree in shade
To lounge beneath
Each branch an artist
Race you to the top
Let’s see who reaches it the fastest
I would come last happily
To be passed by such majesty
And actually invigorate me hardest
.
Made it to this safe place by the skin of my teeth
Started at sedate pace and with minimised heat
Felt the need to simplify a scheme
Foreseen of failure
Proceed then breathing
Study ever keenly my behaviour
However could I waive rights I had never been relieved
Even through the never
I made sense of the between
.
Lounge act
.
Better yet felt in reach of great many kings and queens
Essentially the same way bled
For every dreamer dreams a theme
The scene set veered sincerely to the evergreen
A centrepiece the likes of which I’d seldom in my ventures ever seen
.
Seemed high time I leap
Or else I’d never breathe air quite so sweet
The rest is history I care repeat
.
I found a tree in shade
To lounge beneath
Each branch an artist
Where everyone is welcome
To see each brave reach the farthest
I remain here happily
To bask in rays of majesty
Since I found agèd tree in shade to lounge beneath emphatically
.
Apathy is overrated massively
.
Apathy is overrated massively
And only gazes passively
As lonely places play us with tenacity
And actually disintegrate belief
.
Paddle out to island reef
Hereby agree to time our leaps
And reach the branch our hearts perceive the farthest
Fatigue aside
We’re breathless artists
Striving to succeed in life
Cut us and we bleed and die
Breathe us and relieve us
Try a little tenderness and weep the same redeeming tears we cry
It’s easy to believe it
When we try
.
Made it to this safe place by the skin of my teeth
Started at sedate pace and with minimised heat
.
Made it to this safe place by the skin of my teeth
Started at sedate pace and with minimised heat
Felt the need to simplify a scheme
Foreseen of failure
Proceed then breathing
Study ever keenly my behaviour
.
Apathy is overrated massively
.
Apathy is overrated massively
And only gazes passively
As lonely places play us with tenacity
And actually disintegrate belief
.

Better yet felt in reach of great many kings and queens
Essentially the same way bled
For every dreamer dreams a theme
The scene set veered sincerely to the evergreen
A centrepiece the likes of which I’d seldom in my ventures ever seen
.
I found a tree in shade
To lounge beneath
Each branch a part of me
Meet you at the top
Let’s be in sync and claim the farthest reach
I came home to majesty
Remain this way emphatically
Since I reclaimed my place beneath a tree in shade
A canopy where actually I’m happy to retreat
Make history each vision then repeat
.
I found a tree in shade
To lounge beneath
Each branch a part of me
Meet you at the top
Let’s be in sync and claim the farthest reach
.
I found a tree in shade
To lounge beneath
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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Painkiller has been published in All of Me Vol. VI, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Trip To Space by Andromeda. Title art is by Alex Templin. Closing art is by Bojan Jevtić.

Listen to Painkiller by Richard Charles Stevens (Trip To Space Suite)

Tell me of your pains
Your sorrows
Your grief
Peel back your skin
Let’s begin underneath
Unsheathe each vein
Weep the trials that remain
While I bleed narrow lanes of the gifts they bequeath
.
Tell me of your pains
Your sorrows
Your grief
Peel back your skin
Let’s begin underneath
Unsheathe each vein
Weep the trials that remain
While I bleed narrow lanes of the gifts they bequeath
.
First cut is the deepest
Finding peace in incompleteness
Tearing down walls that bid safeguard to weakness
Picking up pieces of uniqueness scattered
Being the keeper of all retrieved matter
Hopes may be dashed
A whole cache of dreams shattered
Wings may be tattered
Yet flight can be ceaseless
In complete darkness and drowning in bleakness
You need to believe that you matter
.
Climb the white ladder attached to your spine
Weave through the sinew and match it to mine
Feel free to bleed me
No pact need be signed
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
Climb the white ladder attached to your spine
Weave through the sinew and match it to mine
Feel free to bleed me
No pact need be signed
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
Climb the white ladder attached to your spine
Weave through the sinew and match it to mine
Feel free to bleed me
No pact need be signed
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
Through first cut to deeper
No tethers be severed
Each tendon a pendant of endless endeavour
No bones of contention
Of woeful retention
Indecent proposals that warrant a mention
.
One word
Forever
A single crowned gown
One simple laced treasure
Of greatest renown
Braided with faith through the pains on parade
Tracing the smile in denial of your face
All that it takes is a single embrace
To create a rave scene of the dreams that we chase
Kissing pained eyes for within it reprises
Herein lies Phoenix
And famed be its rise
.
Famed be it’s rise
Famed be it’s rise
Herein lies Phoenix
And famed be its rise
Famed be it’s rise
Famed be it’s rise
Herein lies Phoenix
And famed be its rise
.
May pains abstain
May pains abstain

.
Sustained in its flight
By the faint cries subsiding
Of pain sorrow grief
Freed from internalising
Each vein unsheathed
Wept of trials that remain
In the name of two ancients colliding
.
Shining through darkness
Unchained ordained harness
Widened of range by embracing the carnage
In blind faith incarnate
Embodied no shame
Far and away from the skies once drained starless
.
Tell me of your pains
Your sorrows
Your grief
Free every teardrop constrained underneath
Feel free to bleed me
Such gifts I bequeath
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
Tracing the smile entertained of reprise
Herein lies Phoenix
And famed be its rise
.
Tracing the smile entertained of reprise
Herein lies Phoenix
And famed be its rise
.
Climb the white ladder attached to your spine
Weave through the sinew and match it to mine
Feel free to bleed me
No pact need be signed
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
Climb the white ladder attached to your spine
Weave through the sinew and match it to mine
Feel free to bleed me
No pact need be signed
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
I see the universe
I see the universe
I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
Climb the white ladder attached to your spine
Weave through the sinew and match it to mine
Feel free to bleed me
No pact need be signed
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
Tell me of your pains
Your sorrows
Your grief
Free every teardrop constrained underneath
Feel free to bleed me
Such gifts I bequeath
For I see the universe deep in your eyes
.
I see the universe deep in your eyes
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of Pathfinder pays homage to We Follow The Sun by Praga Khan.

Listen to Pathfinder by Richard Charles Stevens (Follow The Sun Suite)

Compiled from the parts of a heart long at ease
I embark upon safari
Down the pathway
Through the trees
Ill at ease initially
Traditionally perceived to be a mystery
To those who knew my history
Yet missed the mark consistently
When fitting me for disregarded stitchery
Permitting me no elbow room to breathe
.
Underneath the floorboards
In the flowers of my bones
Ten thousand strong belief is bid residual enthrone
Empowered by the ebbs and flows
Of every treasured soul aglow
Their chiming toll my prideful oath
To higher grounds foreshown
.
Lobbying for votes that mine was hobby
Thus denoting the embodiment of rock to dash my hopes
Quoted as an oddity
Some way from a commodity
Remote in methodology
Therefore odds on to choke
My endnotes were declared
While they prepared a heavy dose
Of the reality that actually had fractured me
Disclosed to see the back of me
And bid me adios
In fever deemed appropriate to host

.
The closer I became to the compose of closing symphony
The more I felt reposed to all the cloaks that had it in for me
For principally they willed me on
To whimsically reveal a song
And not a single beat of this felt wrong
.
Underneath the floorboards
In the flowers of my bones
Ten thousand strong belief is bid residual enthrone
Empowered by the ebbs and flows
Of every treasured soul aglow
Their chiming toll my prideful oath
To higher grounds foreshown
.

No mystery
For those who know my history
Will see me strive consistently
To bid reprise to e’er abiding dream

.
My heart was long at ease
As I embarked upon safari
Down the pathway
Through the trees
Where I felt halfway to release
Appeasing branches seen as gnarly
Pleased the deepest part of me

All interleaving arteries
To be deemed as a masterpiece
.
Setting forth on destined course
Enthroned from unsuspected source
Resting spores protecting me
From rivals sent to pester me
Relying on the best of me
To not amount to much
And thus subjecting me to unrelenting force
.

Underneath the floorboards
In the flowers of my bones
Ten thousand strong belief is bid residual enthrone
Empowered by the ebbs and flows
Of every treasured soul aglow
Their chiming toll my prideful oath
To higher grounds foreshown
.
Compiled from the essence ever present
I became the grateful tenant
As the crescent moon resumed its luminescence
Many lessons had been learned
As I returned to adolescence
Where I last caressed the tethers of belief
.
Cleaved yet never severed
Were my reasons to proceed
.
To endeavour down the pathway
Through the trees
.
My heart was long at ease
As I embarked upon safari
Down the pathway
Through the trees
Where I felt halfway to release
Appeasing branches seen as gnarly
Pleased the deepest part of me

All interleaving arteries
To be deemed as a masterpiece
.
Be deemed as a masterpiece
(repeat to fade)
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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This arrangement of inKind pays homage to Can’t You See by Jimmy J & Cru-L-T.

Listen to inKind by Richard Charles Stevens (Sight and Mind Suite)

 A better world for all
This is why I put out call
This is why I strive so hard to give my all and more for cause
.
This is why I’d die before denying light safe passage
This is why I’ll never be impassive
This is why I took grand plans
Upgraded them to lavish
This is why I gift the deepest bleeds to feed the masses
This is why I live and breathe
This is why I give not thieve
This is why I love so hard
No reason to deceive
Only wish to see hearts bid relief from beats retreating
Only wish to generate belief
.
Through art
Defined
My heart
In kind
.

Every breath I exhale
Is a vessel set sail
Each time I awaken
My eyes are less vacant
My quest trail
A fresh gale
Which blows from the north
In ode to immense scale
Of opening chords
Unspoken endorsement
No token reward
For the hope still afloat in a soul’s glow outsourced
Alone with my thoughts
I feel home at the source
Yet so seldom outgrown of the heart
For each beat repeats
To make sweet the entreat of my deepest seed bleeding true art
.
Each beat repeats
To make sweet the entreat of my deepest seed bleeding true art
.
If you can see what I see
Then you’ll see the better world within our reach
This is why I’m never less proportionate than when my thoughts contort to court the kind of madness sought by minds retrieved
.
Through art
Defined
My heart
In kind
.
Through art
Defined
My heart
In kind
.
Through art
Defined
My heart
In kind
.
Through art
Defined
.
If you can feel what I feel
Then you’ll know that what I feel is real
Appeals to every sense concealed
With penchant for revealing
Such interventions care to mention
Nothing ill
Just fair intentions
Hence declaring rare exception
To all senses reeling
.
A better world for all
This is why I rise from fall
This is why I thrive on kindness
This is why I cry in silence
Every teardrop hides a diamond
Wide eyes prize the kindest guidance
On the inside
I am dancing
Even when the blight advances
This is why the inner artist gives his all to work me hardest
This is why I travel farthest just to reap the virgin harvest
This is why I live and breathe
This is why I give not thieve
This is why I love so hard
Through every single bleed
.
Screening scheming demons to relieve them of secretions
Tend their lesions
Mend allegiances
Respectful of their grievances
Regretful not in keeping them
For I spot something deep in them
In keeping with my need to see them beat the evils seizing them
Only wish to venerate those souls of most persuasive glow
Arm in arm we put out call
Make a better world for all
This is how we rise from fall
This can be our home
This is where delight is formed
This can be our own
.
Take my hand
For I have yours
Feel most precious
Feel adored
Celebrate each scar and flaw
Accelerate regard for cause
Leave the ties that bind behind
Leap with faith and try it blind
This is how we redesign a better world for all
.

Every breath I exhale
Is a vessel set sail
Each time I awaken
My eyes are less vacant
My quest trail
A fresh gale
Which blows from the north
In ode to immense scale
Of opening chords
Unspoken endorsement
No token reward
For the hope still afloat in a soul’s glow outsourced
Alone with my thoughts
I feel home at the source
Yet so seldom outgrown of the heart
For each beat repeats
To make sweet the entreat of my deepest seed bleeding true art
.
If you can feel what I feel
Then you’ll know that what I feel is real
Appeals to every sense concealed
With penchant for revealing
.
Such interventions care to mention
Nothing ill
Just fair intentions
Hence declaring rare exception
To all senses reeling
.
Such interventions care to mention
Nothing ill
Just fair intentions
Hence declaring rare exception
To all senses reeling
.
Home is where the heart resides
No finer art to bleed
Together we can make the world a kinder place to be
.
Home is where the heart resides
No finer art to bleed
Together we can make the world a kinder place to be
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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The original version of Under The Same Moon has been published in All of Me Vol. III, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Green Eggs and Ham by DJ Ham.

Listen to Under The Same Moon by Richard Charles Stevens (Green Eggs and Ham Suite)

Distant hearts they whisper sweetest nothings
Can you hear
Huddle close and I shall do my uppermost to keep you near
Fingertips to fingertips
Need never feel alone
For under the same moon we’ll soon be home
.
Under the same moon
There will be kisses to confer
No great rush to touch the void
Too much ado adjoining burns
With such a choice subject to learn
Each kiss shall find its voice in turn
Even when asleep
I’m falling deeper
When our lips be pursed
.
Under the same moon
We bless the full eclipse and lift its curse
.
Under the same moon
We bless the full eclipse and lift its curse
.
Making love could not be any farther from my mind
Breathing in your air for the first time
Nothing to declare that makes me any less than gentleman
Never less committed to a crime
.
Criminal procedures mean permitting no restraint
Chomping at the bit and only fit to bolt the gate
Standing in the grace of Venus
Under the same moon
Feels far more attuned to faith to wait
.
Every leap of faith engaged will be the first
Therefore unique
Every twist of fate reiterates
Cascading romantique
Distant hearts imparting sweetest nothings to the ears
Listen hard
You may hear the percussion of my tears
.
Wish to see me weep
Then please do see me in this moment
For bittersweet as it may seem
Each beat of me is stolen
.
Each beat of me is stolen
.

Making love could not be any farther from my mind
Breathing in your air for the first time
Nothing to declare that makes me any less than gentleman
Never less committed to a crime
.
Here we are free
No decree to be passed
Forthright of venture
Momentous of calm
Gentle in charm
Extended of palm
As we reach for the light
Fundamental in psalm

.
Not a thought towards senseless alarm
Ascending
Unendingly
Meant to be
Soon to be
Fused to the stars

Fused to the stars

.
Here we are free
No decree to be passed
Forthright of venture
Momentous of calm
Gentle in charm
Extended of palm
As we reach for the light
Fundamental in psalm

.
Not a thought towards senseless alarm
Ascending
Unendingly
Meant to be
Soon to be
Fused to the stars

Fused to the stars

.
Distant hearts they whisper sweetest nothings
Can you hear
Each sweet beat a keepsake
Every bleed a souvenir

Empowered to shower the thirsting terrain
With the rains of eternal refrain

.

Fingertips to fingertips
Need never feel alone
For under the same moon we’ll soon be home

.
Fingertips to fingertips
Need never feel alone
For under the same moon we’ll soon be home

.
Here we are free
No decree to be passed
Forthright of venture
Momentous of calm
Gentle in charm
Extended of palm
As we reach for the light
Fundamental in psalm

.
Merged in a blur of each colour and shade
Fierce supernova
Exploding in flame
Painting the skyline
Defining the primary
Marvelling at the sensational finery
Breathtaking sights for delight to recline in
The finest of dining
For binary tastes
Gowned in the greatest renown
Crowned of faith
Profound of devout
Proud regalia famed
.
Merged in a blur of each colour and shade
Fierce supernova
Exploding in flame
Painting the skyline
Defining the primary
Marvelling at the sensational finery
Breathtaking sights for delight to recline in
The finest of dining
For binary tastes
Gowned in the greatest renown
Crowned of faith
Profound of devout
Proud regalia famed
Clear in direction
Pure of reflection
Something sincere
Of the sheerest affection
Empowered to shower the thirsting terrain
With the rains of eternal refrain
.
With the rains of eternal refrain
(repeat to fade)
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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