Intrepid (The Elite Suite)

Featured art by Brooke Shaden

Listen to Intrepid by Richard Charles Stevens (The Elite Suite)

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The sun was heartily ablaze
The moon remarkably behaved
The stars were partially displaced
Yet keen to bargain for amaze

The sun was artfully ablaze
The moon a masterpiece unframed
The stars of harmony’s arrange
And yours the heart of seasoned brave
And yours the heart of seasoned brave

Look at how far you have come
The journey you have taken
Since your favour reawakened
Since the tree of life was shaken
And its leaves fell in succumb
Look at how far you have come
Look at how far you have come
Look at how far you have come
Look at how far you have come

Each day and night a light and shade of you to celebrate regardless of the blight of life’s degenerate and harness

Repeated mistakes were well placed for resuming
Strategically placed to narrate your conclusion
Brazen nights stifling
Danger days looming
Needed to break one remaining illusion
Seemed no more to life than bruising
Bleeding raw saline solution
In the breadline
Barely moving
Deadline met
And yet unproven
Deadline met
And yet unproven
Deadline met
And yet unproven
Deadline met
Deadline met
Deadline met
And yet unproven

Fated repeatedly
Stated defeatedly
Faced with indecency
Raided unceasingly
Mainline leaking
Plainly speaking
Rate exceeding
Aching feeling
Reeling days
Revealing ways
To further heed obscene delays
While evening haze decayed
The greater meaning
While evening haze decayed
The greater meaning
Reeling days
Revealing ways
To further heed obscene delays
While evening haze decayed
The greater meaning

Fingering subjection
Rescinding recollection
Of hinder
Regression
Deep stinging correction
Castrating will for a nickel and a shilling
Making a killing from incomprehension
Lactating milk from the teats of dissension
Spilling unwilling to break straining tension
Draining each major vein aiming to strengthen
Taking great pains to
Delay you
Betray you
Abuse through uncouth
Condescension
Make gained favour unmentioned
To labour beneath
Extreme misapprehension

The race appeared well run
As disgrace neared from every direction
To undress you of the web in fever spun
Your arms and legs were bound
Yet still you stood your ground profoundly
Then transcended mortal boundary
As your vesture came undone
Transcended mortal boundary
As your vesture came undone
As your vesture came undone

The sun was heartily ablaze
The moon remarkably behaved
The stars were partially displaced
Yet keen to bargain for amaze

The sun was artfully ablaze
The moon a masterpiece unframed
The stars of harmony’s arrange
And yours the heart of seasoned brave

To emanate the faith you do
Costumes the nature of your bloom
Your private chamber fames the view
Before you favourably strewn

In light of shade
Innately grew
For either way
You paid your dues

Each day and night a light and shade of you to celebrate regardless of the blight of life’s degenerate and harness

Look at how far you have come
To salute the skies that loop reprise of youthful rise from old bones revolutionised
To be so whole dehumanised
Tolls bell foretold no scrutinise
The chime of ever truthful eyes
That cared to come undone
The chime of ever truthful eyes
That cared to come undone
Cared to come undone

The sun was heartily ablaze
The moon remarkably behaved
The stars were partially displaced
Yet keen to bargain for amaze
Each day and night a light and shade of you to celebrate regardless of the blight of life’s degenerate and harness
To emanate the faith you do
Costumes the nature of your bloom
Your private chamber fames the view
Before you favourably strewn

There will be storms
They will be fierce
And true to form
You’ll face your fears
Embrace the hail
Prevail
Refresh
Each storm to pass
When clouds undress
At behest of blest address
You wrest the more from scores of less
Bereft the stress that second guessing tends to overstretch
No less possessed by fresh beginnings
All five senses sense you’re winning
Even when your head is spinning
Blessèd essence is refilling
Overspilling with the willing to see every dream fulfilling
At your leisure
Buried treasure
Ferries pleasure
To each tether never severed less endeavoured to remember whichsoever liquid measure lifts the zephyr
With the drift to live forever
With the drift to live forever
With the drift to live forever
Live forever
Live forever
Live forever
Live forever

Abreast of well met fresh beginnings
Death’s apprentice prepped for living
Prepped for living
Prepped for living
Prepped for living
Prepped for living

Look at how far you have come
To salute the skies that loop reprise of youthful rise from old bones revolutionised
To be so whole dehumanised
Tolls bell foretold no scrutinise
The chime of ever truthful eyes
That cared to come undone
Come undone
Come undone
Come undone
Come undone
Come undone
Come undone
Come undone
Come undone

Look at how far you have come
The journey you have taken
Since your favour reawakened
Since the tree of life was shaken
And the leaves fell in succumb
The nature of your rise
The sweet persuasion of your tide
As you parade amazing heights
Unchained
The brave crusading knight
To seize the day
The rainy nights
The in-between
To braid entwined
The light and shade
Beneath the tree of farthest reach
Unchanged of pride

To seize the day
The rainy nights
The in-between
To braid entwined
The light and shade
Beneath the tree of farthest reach
Unchanged of pride

In grace
Reclined
Of sweetest seed be sown
To frame unceasing skies and lead thee
Home
To frame unceasing skies and lead thee
Home
To frame unceasing skies and lead thee
Home

Each day and night a light and shade of you to celebrate regardless of the blight of life’s degenerate and harness

The sun was artfully ablaze
The moon a masterpiece unframed
The stars of harmony’s arrange
And yours the heart of seasoned brave