Lantern

Silently, suddenly
Comes the ghost at your side
Quietest enemy inside the dream
Perfectly this reprieve
Taken, but not given
Loneliness, like a mist lost to the sea

Eyes like violence cut desire and float down to the chair
Always still God’s windowsill and perfectly aware

Say you’ll wait till morning
Say you won’t run away, even today
Say you’ll light this lantern for me now

I believe, make believe
Play like snakes in your hair
Empathy, up my sleeve
Not really there
Child’s play in the waves
By this silent lighthouse
Drowning fast, pushing hard, nature less care

Eyes like mice, cut through the lies and humourless despair
Always still God’s windowsill and perfectly aware

Say you’ll wait till morning
Say you won’t run away, even today
Say you’ll light this lantern for me now

Inside this whirlpool
You find yourself spinning
And ebbing and flowing to me
Nightmare aversion
A hopeless uncertainty play in the wild, wild sea

Say you’ll wait till morning
Say you won’t run away, even today
Say you’ll light this lantern for me now