Cathedral

Overarching fingers,
I never thought I'd reach them
In all my days
Tall beyond measure
And in the end so small
I reach out in pain

Suffered to undertake me
Such impossible journies
Old stone worn thin
Remember something beautiful
A day, an hour, a moment
Forever outstretched

I will remember glowing embers
In a burnt out cathedral
And as nightime descended
A rough kiss goodnight
Sweet dreams in strange chambers
Full faith and conviction

Up in the spire above the town
On the top of the hill
Alone, and proud
You look down at the land
Further than I can see
Lost in the pale blue distance.

Leaves on the Line

When I got out of the house today
I walked down
To the bottom of the town again

It was cold in my shoes
I could tell
I'd lost so much in you

When the days keep on changing around
And I can't keep a memory in my head
When the future's come back and turned us down
There's only some things left to be said

Leaves on the line
Another time
A life left behind
I'll be right here

I looked up where I was going
Saw the sky
And nothing more to remind me

I looked down at the pavement
Saw my feet
And nothing else I remembered

When the future's turned inside out
When the past is nothing but pain
When the present is all you have left in yourself
But all you can feel is pain

Leaves on the line
Another time
A life left behind
I'll be right here

When there's nothing in the world
That could change the pace of the wind
I held onto myself
But I could feel my heart caving in

Leaves on the line
Another time
A life left behind
I'll be right here

Leaves on the line
Green leaves will fall in time
When there's nothing left behind
I'll be right here.

Leaves

Why did you think I was trying to leave?
Did you think you didn't mean a thing?
Why fracture my life just to put you aside?
Why did you have to leave without a thing?

I am torn before you on this rack that you built
I can't win either way that I go
So please give an option and give me a light
I don't know how to live without hope.

I am young in my heart but you've aged me
I was older than you but it changed
We can't live our lives like the same thing
You can't leave me alone all the same.

You're a friend to me now and you've left me outside
And I've suffered more than I was due
In truth you never saw the pain that you caused
For my part, I never showed it to you.

I am slipping away from you now, please don't try
To stop me from getting out of this place
I've had more than enough, I can't do anymore
And if it means that this won't be my life anymore
If the only thing to do is to walk out the door
I'll take one final look at your face.

Feathers

Fallen from your body, they were
Feathers from your throat.
I had never known the power
In these arms until I broke

Into the rage I shall not flee from
In a night that wouldn't end
For one of us at least was guilty
And would never speak again.

Something vigilant within me
Rose and fell into the dark
In the places you will never reach
Deep within a sunken heart.

You had never seen that side of me
Or ever seen my face
I am consumed by something black as pitch,
Tarnished by my fate.

Spirit

The ghosts still walk the land
Searching for loved ones
Head in hands
And cries in throat.

You dare not walk upon
The beach, or sleep
At night. Light
Candles only for the children,

And comfort them
From voices in
The trees. I was
There once, but did not leave.

Somewhere above you I'm asleep
I'll leave no trace
Only in dreams
I'll speak the names

And you'll never live to
Forget me, or
All the death
You'd never seen.

Now washed down by
The tide I hide
And slip through
Nights, with only screams.

Overseer

The songs I dream of writing
Spill out onto the paper but they're wrong.
The words are there
But somehow every time it's gone.
I cannot choose to hear
The words which made me flood with tears.
All that remains are scrawled
And broken lines upon the wall.

I wish he'd stop playing this game
And put some thoughts in me again.

Wishing Fountain

A brazen coin tucked deep between
Failing fingers, steep inclines of youth
And pushed back plastic hoods, elastic edged
Around my eyes.

A stumbling block towards another
Footprints in grass (or turf at least)
Up stretched along a wall knee-high
And in to water.

Splashed back boots to parent heart
And home. I get to wish another
But it isn't true, in all honesty
Come to nothing.

Desperate

It didn't make sense, those things I saw
And seeing knew I'd lost track.
The world I chose. My own inhabitant
You remind me of something desperate
Some grey-lined silved canyon
Over streams running pale water, down faces
Of rock and bare stone in moonlight.

Pick up your feet child, running now
Down hillsides too fast to stop
Where we cannot see the bottom
Looming still submerged
Sucked in cheeks insignificant.

Weatherstones in my pocket, weatherstones
Happy charm to me in the morning
But before I gave morning a chance
You gave me away.

Pick your feet up child
Dawdling behind forever lax
And lapsed inward, without support,
Bent and useless and falling in on
Everything. Pick your feet up child,
Running silent today
It is cold, cold, cold today
It is cold, cold, cold.