For Good

When you're not here my world despairs
Although you're in my head
Time moves quickly
Then slows again
Without you everything spins
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The times when you're here we move in sync
But away you're out of step
We fall together
Then fall apart
It's hard to begin again
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This world is hard when we're alone
And harder day by day
You come home
Then leave again
One day you'll be home for good
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Chronology

Chronology

This temple…

Will never be rebuilt

Its passages are permanently obstructed

There is no treasure to plunder

No wonders to explore

Leave it to crumble

To fall to ruin

One day…

It will be a wonder

The unpassaged temple

The unplundered treasure

But until that day

It is simply a building

A blight on the landscape

Perhaps we should

Demolish this temple

Give history…

A place to start

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Deadline

Deadline

Call me on the first of May

That celebrated day

When flowers bloom and birds sing

And lovers lead the way

I’ll be ready for you at that time

When all the right words seem to rhyme

So come to me on Beltane Day

As the world resounds with chimes

But if you come on Easter Eve

I won’t ask for you to leave

I won’t be ready for you at that time

But I still could bear for you to leave

If you don’t come for me by fall

I’ll assume you won’t come for me at all

And that would be the biggest blow of all

If you were never to come at all

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Turnstiles of Time

Will you miss me when I’m gone?

When the dust clears

And the smoke settles

Will the memories fade?

As the lights dime

And the curtains close

The people pass through

The turnstiles of time

I want to leave my mark

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Ghostlight

Ghostlight

When the curtains close

And the lights all dim

There’s only me

Standing there without him

The lights all fade

To the darkest of blacks

So deep that it burns

Inner demons attack

Swarming and seething

Eating mind and spirit

An all consuming power

No wonder I fear it

That empty stage

That lights on old ghosts

Brings light to the darkness

To what we fear most

So don’t leave me here

In the dark and alone

Give me thunderous cheers

I’ll truly be home

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Famished

Is there any polite way

To say goodbye?

To ask someone to leave

Not your heart but your head?

I’m quicksilver

Pretty to think about

But deadly poisonous

I wish my own reactions were as quick

I certainly recoil as fast

My compass will always

Point true north

Willing to lead me home

Sooner or later I must plant roots

We may share DNA with vegetables

And be fundamentally similar

But I see myself as more of a carnivore

And lately I feel

Simply famished

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