Lightning In A Twilight Hour

The Passerby

Album: Fragments Of A Former Moon [2015]
Author: Robert James Wratten © Elefant Publishing

No longer a flightless bird

No longer bound to the earth

She’ll age no more

She’ll age no more

The passerby

 

She softly stepped

Into freedom

Embraced escape

Stole away

And we remain

 

This started with his end

Never again

Will she

Write in lipstick

On bathroom mirrors

‘Bring him back,

Please bring him back’

 

A new haircut

A forced smile

Dying all the while

‘A sorrow I never want to forget’

 

She softly stepped

Into freedom

Embraced escape

Stole away

And we remain

 

Eternally

She’ll glisten and glitter

Stare from shadows

Peer through colours

The passerby