Sunday 13 September 2015

Mary's Mother



where did I go to

just to be loyal            
to one last deception
cycles of wishing
no chance to be faithful

when I meant to love you       
dreams made me leave you
heavy as warheads
this fear almost fatal

here in your believing
triumph is fleeting
from so far away
no tongues left to speak in

so our silence becomes as
cold as the season
each yesterday we kill            
another act of treason

            but could it be             could it be       that she creeps up behind you
            could it be       could it be       that whispers will deny you   

                        no tears and no words             no soul for the selling
                        too much to pay                      to keep her from telling

since pain could not be swayed
a slow train runaway again
            the line for redemption
            from here to forever
and that jail you broke out of
the last portal to heaven

time is a monster                     asleep under the carpet
so easy to trip up on                to cover in never
with purples and yellows                    not just for pictures

but her yesterday sees            
her tomorrow remembers

because your shame hid away
a slow game come to play again
            the mercy you traded
            bursting with color                                                     
and what you thought finished
only just started

                        I could never love you
                        hope made me leave you
                        the damned has its day
                        trust still in the cradle

now here in this leaving
one stopped the bleeding
from a day unintended
night saved for dreaming           

where have you gone to
crouched in a circle
you married the flame
this death for your trouble

if only for tomorrow
one last declaration
a lifetime of knowing
I will be faithful

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