Lightning In A Twilight Hour

Fortress

Disco: Colours Yet To Be Named [2025]
Autor: Robert James Wratten © Elefant Publishing

Sunlight spills across your face

From long ago

I catch your smile

We built a safe and sacred space

On what we carried for a while

 

Built on stillness

Built from fire

Built to tend the quiet part

A sanctuary

For anyone

Who harbours an enquiring heart

 

We built ourselves a fortress

On we found but couldn't keep

And even now that fortress

Tells of how

We once believed

 

What we fell upon

When our paths crossed

Lifetimes are spent

Looking for

What we fell upon

When our paths crossed

Remains out there

Never lost

 

Built on stillness

Built from fire

Built to tend the quiet part

 

We built ourselves a fortress

On what we found but couldn't keep

And even now that fortress

Tells of how

We once believed

 

It's just that time will not allow

The sky that once was ours

It's just that time will not allow

Those stars to be with us now