Ave Maria

Dreams lie shattered
Shards endure
Now the wraiths her mind possess
Like shells of precious flowers
Dried out and hung with love
Making eyes into frozen temples
That stale you with their gaze
So pale
So cold
So beautiful
If not clinically insane

Now the decades pass unanswered
And she prays with silent lips
Sometimes she talks to angels
When she has her little fits
But you must believe in something -
Sometimes that something's real
Sometimes our motivations
Are tied up in what we feel

So elegant her poetry
Falls from her pallid lips
She flows like icy roadways
When the wheels start to slip
And if her course lays waste to this
I pray a way to your design
Her minions shall dance your dreaming eyes
And sing her fragile rhymes

Now the decades pass unanswered
And she prays with silent lips
Sometimes she talks to angels
When she has her little fits
But you must believe in something -
Sometimes that something's real
Sometimes our motivations
Are tied up in what we feel

Ave Maria
Just give us something
But it's lost on deafened ears
Ave Maria
Just give us something
To ears that cannot hear

Now the decades pass unanswered
And she prays with silent lips

Sometimes she talks to angels
When she has her little fits
But you must believe in something -
Sometimes that something's real
Sometimes our motivations
Are tied up in what we feel

Ave Maria
Just give us something
But it's lost on deafened ears
Ave Maria
She's saying something
To ears that cannot hear

Ave Maria
Just give us something
But it's lost on deafened ears
Ave Maria

If God is speaking
She's the only one who hears