Ghost City

The city docks are underwater
A light burns from the lake
High up on the hillside
Old buildings lie in wait

Sun used to come out sometimes
Now all the clouds are grey
Ghost city, once pretty
Now has passed away

Ghost city, so pretty
No pity, just shame

I used to meet you
Now I don’t know where you are
I could believe you
But now you're gone I can’t see far

You don’t believe me
I’m stranded here again
Ghost city, once pretty
Burnt out like so many days

Ghost city, so pretty
No pity, just shame

I don’t remember the name of this street
If I ever knew it at all
I don’t remember who showed it to me
Ghost city, once pretty
Now rubble, water and snowfall.

My Sweet Love

My sweet love
Lending her light to the moon
When the night opens
She unfolds into full bloom

Some people say
Nothing comes in time
They don’t know what I’ve seen
Some people say
Anything
Another translucent dream

My sweet love
Lending her light to the stars
Heaven into her eyes
Survival possession and heart

Some people say
You can’t move in time
You can only respond to the world
Some people say
Anytime
Is never time, that’s ok tonight

My sweet love
Lending her light to the sun
Come to me alight
Burn this body and let me become

Desolation

He walks in, she’s awake
Eyes are closed, head is grey
Thick as dust, numb as bone
Skull exposed, overthrown

Forever cast to freedom
Forever hidden fate
Soul hardened until morning
No wisdom to negate

We return, the sister home
Too much feeling, in our head
Nothing dreamt, nothing shown
Someone lost, another bred

Fortune

Breath of fortune, black lake
Creep the bones back into the bodies
Sun down, sun up, breathe life
By chance or by conviction

She made a sail
Of hair and bone and the smaller shells
The dross that washes up
Onto pale sands

Down they crashed, up and over
Into the sun and back to earth
Sway and blister, rod and thunder,
Bruise and promise

The tide that swells
And fades out into nothing
Begins as a pulse
Murmurs to a whisper

Considered, ponderous, she breathes out
And out and out it goes
Fruit and warmth, sunlight
Into the ocean

And fade to nothing
Beneath the pale sand
Beneath the water
Into the other.

Try

We sit, dreaming dreams
Singers of the songs that you forget
Witnesses to what you now regret
Trying to remember how it seemed

Another life, another death
Waiting outside, listening, dim
Don’t fall back, you’re falling in
Trying to extrapolate what’s left

Mistakes, I’ve found my legacy
Remember things, forget time and place
Southern coasts, each one desolate
Between the ships and the endless sea

Recover all you’ve never come to prove
Watch old suns fall and brittle mountains move

Don’t look back, look in upon yourself
Summer drowned in winter’s fatal stealth.