Halflife

Watch scenes from a memory

Play by the lakeside

Lost parts of the scenery

There in a halflife

He walks, he walks beside the lake

Fade in, fade out, a loop he makes

Through silver birches flickering

By concrete towers he disappears

Disappears

Watch him from the road

Framed between the railings

Cut between the stones

And the concrete buildings

Reactor one, reactor two

Are cooler now, and out of use

While in the café cans of coke

Grow slowly flat

Like isotopes

Watch scenes from a memory

Play by the lakeside

Lost parts of the scenery

There in a halflife

Slate mines in the forestry

Shells by the roadside

Lost parts of the scenery

There in a half life

Watch him from the road

Framed between the railings

Cut between the stones

And the concrete buildings