Castle on the Hill [Day 3 Viewing Thread]
Mar 16, 2017 13:50:16 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 13:50:16 GMT -5
Alfer Izar
You never
Thought that I was
A man
Who could live for anyone—
‘Because I live for the day,’
Not because I didn’t love
You,
The one that held us together
When we were apart at the seams
Like a needle and thread
Patching us up. Could you
Send me a wire from
Inside
To teach me how
You think that there is good
When the world has so much
That would rather see us
Starving, broken, battered.
Forgotten, I think that I’ve
Forgotten how you used to laugh
When I told you
There was no one here like you.
Like the sun you rise
Rosy red
Bringing light even when
The clouds threaten
And the thunder rolls
Because no matter how much the darkness calls
You are endless.
See that girl, with the curly black hair and
The smile that warms frostbitten hearts
That is
Salome, you think you could come back
To us?
I don’t know if I know
The answer and I need you
To tell me what I should know.
Already you’ve seen the fight
A battle of
Fists against skulls
Blood pouring down
Rain against the upside down world.
Your nightmare fantasy just another game
As though raising your hand had been
The way to save us.
But there were so many
They knew how much you gave us.
Sampson passed a basket around
Deval sold his best horse
I doubled the price of grass
And sent it all.
It can never be enough
To you, the world was
Another chance
To be better, for us, and
I could have said something
To die when—all others turn
Against the girl who trusts too much.
She slips through their fingers
Down and into a garden of roses
Kind and true, you are a vision
Of what we should all hope
To be. And I can’t stop thinking
That all this will end, soon—
I wake before the crack of noon
Because today is not like yesterday
When smoke clouded my vision
When I spent the hours wishing
That pain would greet me like a departing friend
And not the shards of glass I imagine it will be.
The shed was our hideaway
Where we played shadow puppets
Telling stories of the old world
Of spirits crossing to the other side
To find their love
Of magic and daring
A girl like you dreamed in color
Even in the dark.
Today it is
Where I begin
To set things right
To bring together
What really matters, that
We embrace what may come
Hearts open to a pain so familiar.
I send the letters out with Magdalena
She hit me in the arm and said
‘You are an idiot, but I love you.’
I feel my heart beat under my flesh
So nervous I could die
To think that there might be one
Or two or six
To sit with me
And watch the third day
And so I open the bottle of moonshine
Pour out the glasses and drink
Pull down the screen and turn on
The sight of Salome and then of Tamron
And drink
The sight of two souls lost
And drink
The sound of two hearts that, had no chance
And drink
The world is clearer
When the sound comes
Voices outside
Footsteps on the gravel road
And I turn to smile and greet them
‘Took you bastards long enough to show.’
