Elamon

FIELDS OF POPPIES

Floating into nothing

Reaching at the dark

For anyone to grab ahold

The humming of machines 

Echo far away

Why do I feel so cold 

Fields of poppies bleed 

From my memory 

The smell of rain in June

Never came too soon

Voices in my language 

I can’t understand 

Why can’t they hear me 

One moment they are laughing 

Then they start to cry

What is it that they see

When I wake up

What day is it

How long have I been here

The smell of rain in June 

Never came too soon

All I have of you

Is lingering perfume 

When can I go 

SHE LEFT EARLY

She left early, I never saw her

She slipped away before the storm

We went looking for her outside

She was lost inside all along

We went back inside but couldn’t find her

A disappearing act in plain sight

All the signs around her were flashing

A slow and steady rise to the fall

Gone, gone

Where have you gone

We should have noticed you

Gone gone

Forever gone  

There’s nothing we can do

Gone, gone

Forever gone

There’s nothing we can do

Gone, gone

Where have you gone

We didn’t notice you 

Even her best days are empty

All she has is time to burn

I can’t remember when she remembered 

It’s the great escape that saved her

Goodbye

You said goodbye

We didn’t want to hear

Goodbye

We’ll say goodbye to everyone for you

PALE MORNING

Pale was the morning you woke and found everything gone 

Blown were the trees leaves like messy hair, the forecast was wrong 

A long shallow breath

The sheets all a mess 

You can’t bring yourself to tell her what you had is all gone

She was a gem, a clear sunny day, a flower in May

You are in love with all of her

You’ve always been sure 

You sort through file after file hoping to find 

A miscalculation to fix and free you from this bind 

The truth yesterday today is a lie 

You crunch the numbers it’s not what you’re hoping to find 

She was a diamond in the rough, you polished her up

And all of the ways she had you change, she’d re-arrange 

So then it should be easy to tell her you’re not in love 

You catch the door as you catch her eyes 

You forget all your lines 

One look from her, she’s a sheep to slaughter 

You change your mind

You change it back 

Then you change it again 

Pale was the morning you woke and found everything gone 

BORN INTO ANOTHER WORLD

Born into another world 

Bypassing all of this 

You know all of the answers to this world and the next 

We don’t know what you look like 

Except that you’re beautiful 

A picture blurry and black and white 

Sits on our dresser 

We don’t know what we should like 

Intact or crumbling apart 

One leads to guilt and the other, a shriveled heart 

We go on making decisions 

Who knows if they’re any good

No one quite gets it 

So we move on misunderstood 

Born into another world 

Bypassing all of this