Lightning In A Twilight Hour

White, Upon Your Grave

Album: Overwintering [2022]
Author: Robert James Wratten © Elefant Publishing

The flashing of the air raid plays upon her face

"Come away from the window, come away"

 

Someone had to

Take a stand and say

Something

Be counted

Offer

Resistance

 

The sun still rises

And the moon still reappears

Both indifferent

To the war we wage down here

To only hear the wind

Moving through the trees

No more than

A whisper

Nature

The future

 

“The promise of

Spring and I have to go

The promise of

Spring and I have to go”

 

White, upon your grave

I place a rose

 

Leaving footprints

I will walk the silent earth

Breathing the freedom in

For which I thirst

I know we're right

I stand by every word

Twilight

Broad daylight

Changes the signal

Snow is open

To interpretation

 

“The promise of

Spring

And I have to go

The promise of

Spring and I have to go”

 

White

Upon your grave

I place a rose

White

Upon your grave

I place a rose