Glenbrook

New breath

Was flung along the train line

And called across the bed

We tried to break it in

Was haunted again

The manic words

Were hiding back the pain words

‘Don’t hurt me again’

Was scrawled across the chest

And torn out

A different love in my head

And tried to fall again then

To find

It betrayed me like your death

I was loaded now and then

And wrung out

It hurts I know

To hold it forever

The pain won’t go

On not much sleep

New life in my head

Would fall like any winter

The birds knew the wind

Could love you like I did

And I held out for then

Another sign on my skin

To mark off everything

And try to keep you near

I lost you all again

When we rode out

It hurts I know

To hold it forever

The horse you rode

Won’t hold you forever

It softened and it bled

The hearse was just a bed

And it changed you like they did

Hopeful, I fell in to the room where you said

‘I miss you much more than I’d ever expect’

Hopeless excuse and then don’t call for help

That I needed much more than admit to myself

A sinner in sadness was all that I felt

I pray for you more than I ever do tell

Go long for the better way over the sun

The air was so cold when it moved through my lungs

Needed and longed for their breath on your neck

Oh if I can scream and be safe in your bed

I kissed him then as I’d kissed him before

When you died I gave myself no time to mourn