Serpentine (Go Suite)

The original version of Serpentine has been published in All of Me Vol. I, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. This arrangement pays homage to Go by The Chemical Brothers. Closing art is by Guido Mocafico.

Listen to Serpentine by Richard Charles Stevens (Go Suite)

Come along and ride the serpent
Hold on tight this righteous servant
Nowise glides an idle circuit
Need not feel too tired to work it
First act right through final curtain
One long stretch of cursive sermon
Not a single verb uncertain
Hinting at deserved resurgence

.
Twisting
Turning
Burning embers
Turning tricks while shifting burdens
Sifting through the cursed mist
Shifting stick with pride and mighty purpose
Endless realms traversed as it swerves every curveball breathlessly
Been to hell and on return preferred to verse ascendency
Only one agenda to delight in sights of splendour
High on life and steeped in timeless pedigree

Thoroughly indebted to recovery while each disclosed discovery proposed to close the chapter on the bettered we
.
Come along and ride the serpent
Hold on tight this righteous servant
Nowise glides an idle circuit
Need not feel too tired to work it
First act right through final curtain
One long stretch of cursive sermon
Not a single verb uncertain
Hinting at deserved resurgence
Come along and ride atop the legendary serpent
Legendary serpent
.
Towering above the skies
Hourglass kindly biding time
Night and day impressing stride
Our industry is serpentine
Vision born of certain sight
Shadows sparking lights so bright
Each black to white
We duly bind
Tells tale anew through eyes divine
.
We cordially invite thee
To a masquerade
No masks parading
Crystalline reflections
Timely recollections
Lighted
Shaded
To both sun and moon a proven palace
Some place where both sides unite
To strike the truest balance

Come along and ride the serpent
Hold on tight this righteous servant

Nowise glides an idle circuit
Need not feel too tired to work it
First act right through final curtain
One long stretch of cursive sermon
Not a single verb uncertain
Hinting at deserved resurgence
Come along and ride atop the legendary serpent
Legendary serpent

.
Slender be the jeopardy
Of those opposed to death’s decree
And not a one thing beggarly
Of borrowed time extended leave

Never necessarily the end when voluntarily upended
For a more progressive energy
.
Walk the wild side
Better yet
Ride high above the wind
Burning angels turning learn to love our tattered wings
Ashen lashes scattering a pathway halfway there
Visitors feel free to pull up chairs
Death need not become the be all end all all between
Final breaths need not lament the form we ought achieve
Home is where the arts reside
Hearts on fire proceed
Melting icy spires of disbelief
Teaching us of dragon’s teeth
Unicorns in stunning form
Sunlight
Moonshine
Two times primed to gleam
.
Come along and ride the serpent
Hold on tight this righteous servant