Lightning In A Twilight Hour

Everyone Talks About The Weather

Album: Slow Changes [2015]
Author: Robert James Wratten © Elefant Publishing

The midnight thoughts of a cast adrift

Astronaut

Nature sings

And I can’t resist

The sorrow of something I miss

Hear my silence

Be my witness

And the favour

I’ll return

 

The pressing sky 

We cannot breathe

Here on the outside of everything

But we’re kindred spirits and we know

We wouldn’t want to feel at home

Everyone talks

About the weather 

We don’t

 

I’m not asking to be saved

Just an ember to be placed

In a corner of your heart

Carry me that way

 

The midnight thoughts of a cast adrift

Astronaut

Nature sings

And I’m too aware

There’s a yearning that’s leading nowhere

Hear my silence

All I can conjure

I know we’re lost

As if that matters!

 

I’m not asking to be saved

Just an ember to be placed

In a corner of your heart

Carry me that way