Lightning In A Twilight Hour

Red Comet

Album: Colours Yet To Be Named [2025]
Author: Robert James Wratten © Elefant Publishing

Devoted daughters

Read in bookshops

As afternoons slip by

Devoted daughters

Read in bookshops

All arrows in flight

Here a poppy in October

There a poppy in July

Devoted daughters who will never

Watch while being left behind

 

And she rises from the ashes

Ritual prayers reaching

In love with something greater

Words ablaze

Transcending

 

Coloured dots and writer's block (oh)

Cornflower blue electric shocks (oh)

Compelled to cast spells

Compelled to cast spells

 

The American dream

A nightmare in waiting

When you don't want to play the game

Participation in suffocation

A prison in all but name

Here a poppy in October

There a poppy in July

If she's not selling

The world is learning

What it can and cannot buy

 

Coloured dots and writer's block (oh)

Cornflower blue electric shocks (oh)

Compelled to cast spells

Compelled to cast spells

 

Every letter (lady Lazarus sleeps)

An obligation

Concern in every line (in the only place she)

(Didn't miss the sea)

 

Now perfected (the sea that froze)

Now not caring

Crowned by funeral rites (the winter she chose)

(To declare her heart closed)

 

Every letter (lady Lazarus sleeps)

An obligation

Concern in every line (in the only place she)

(Didn't miss the sea)

 

Now perfected (the sea that froze)

Now not caring

Crowned by funeral rites (the winter she chose)

(To declare her heart closed)