You opened the gate
Cut from the race
I picked up the blade
Severed from grace
All those tethers
Bound by feeling
The emptiness
Of your presence
No more goodbyes
The last of those ties
Undone
And the free man returns
To the way
Of his word
The Cloak and the Dagger is the third and final section of Mirrors and Black Magic. It’s focus is set on the machinations of man and paths to redemption in an unforgiving world. It will ultimately be the darkest chapter in this creation as it rips apart ego and lays bare the motives of character. The medium used will be predominately video and audio for any online presentation although its depth will take different shape and form in the physical realm.
As always I shall post up work in progress and excerpts on my web log and maybe you shall find the answer to that question: Who is Dax Kando?
It was the year of lost souls and the mercenary had just collected the fruit of his labour. At his feet lay a warm corpse still foaming at the mouth. Dead from a self inflicted prick of a needle and the push of a syringe pump. The dragon had taken his soul and left his scrawny remains on a filthy carpet, in a squalid flat, in what was supposed to be one of the better areas of Glasgow.
Above him stood an angel, cold, dark with an air of still menace. His constant stare prying for the slightest hint of life that may be left in his burden…
Tempered temper
I walk away
Leaving you
With your absent god
I kept my word
I always do
For no one forgives
One with no lord
Going to an audition for a short film this evening so I thought I’d write up my own piece for the part of a banker/serial killer.
“People spend their lives chasing a coin. They see it as the be all and end all to existence but the reality is that this coin is a means to power.
People can be bought and sold and I have yet to come across anyone who doesn’t have a price tag. Their beliefs, ethics and morals can all be modified or eliminated. Just pick the right number and they belong to you.
Now you see, once you understand this, you understand the power you can have over life itself. You can control what is most precious and as they chase the coin you will have the ultimate power over them.
That ultimate power of course is having the ability to take a life and simply walk away.”
R.G.
First learn the form. Those outlines of a being filled in black when set against the azure of sky. Over time these cut outs will tell you all before colour fills in the details.
A different kind of music for a new kind of magic.
An air of mystery wrapped in such familiarity.
A feeling woven in to the unknown.
A story written by lucid dreams becoming real over time.
It is these mental projections that keep you ahead of the curve.
