Carenza

We were there Some years ago we found a hideaway a tent already tattered, and we were invisible not quite children, our words quickly sank in a common ocean, our dreams we traced in the pattern of stars As if it ever mattered who did the work Save that the work was done and when the night was over for you two it was over for we too; Something tore at us deep in time Before we were even born Now that my keyboard gathers dust I sit outside and see the simple things that move about in life, which they tell us to grasp, Which I let slip by.

Autumn came again too fast On the low road -the nowhere road A year past, I saw death I felt the shortening of my breath I ran, left you for dead. Hopes, wishes, feelings, friends all left by the roadside, or took another turning In the mirrors cracks I see death behind me I felt its hands inside me I look around me; no-one, nowhere. It's close now, but it doesn't quite happen I see you before me Yet you're not quite there I pour it out for you, call you dizzy and reeling I reach for you, candy floss.