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| Title: |
Resurrection By Lamplight |
| Artist: |
The Last Big Secret
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| Album: |
The Last Big Secret |
| Copyright: |
Caroline Fox Betts |
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The proverbial ray of hope ...
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Resurrection by Lamplight
It passes quietly in velvet slippers -
this season of hollow oracles.
You walk the rain-glossed streets by night,
escaping lights and the bright melee -
crowds with eyes like imploded stars.
None of them smile - they have robotic mouths.
An ocean could vaporise into tears
and never weep their pain away.
Your footsteps echo on stone slabs,
desperate for distance, forgetfulness
and shadows cringe in colonic alleys,
shudder in brooding incubation.
I want to help and dart my hand,
try to catch a flame of reason - flickering and blue -
it passes through without feeling
and I know it's me that's losing reason.
The dove you find, dead come morning,
is speaking with its glazed eye.
It fell to your doorstep in frozen dew -
a veil hanging around your home -
a house like a tomb of eroding names.
Wake! Wake! The spell has ended,
the dream over, and all the needley fingers gone.
See where the missing curtain hook
admits a ray - a lifeline of new possibility.
Caroline Fox
August 2004
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