Horizon 15
(for Alice Mary)
I know those trains,
they take you to the smoke.
Invest you, in a scheme.
To dream, to dream.
And I stood on the burning deck,
and said goodbye, goodbye, my
night dress calling tatters said
goodbye. I was a calm, cold, tranquil beast,
and sailed the vast plain ocean
echo, solo.
I stood lonely with that water sorrow,
stinging salt full hope of being hopeless,
all my life, and all my life.
Nearer, my God,
and I am falling in.
I stood in the twitter woods, abreast
and chiming, Christ dark murdered, and his thorns.
And I stood on the ancient raft, across the way
the jetty, across the way the sunlight, poignant,
good memories, taste buds tingle with the
good food and the time, all the time.
I made evening, come. I was lumpy
stung and purple, ugly,
and it was all still coming, circles.
Nearer, my God.
I lifted my arms with the wave
of the night that was rise and above me,
the full three sister night.
You are not beyond redemption and
all across the land there was a velvet,
and then the darkness, and as it ever came.
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