Vast and awful
The night hardens between us
I dig deep, pulling up lines
To cleave through a thousand miles
Ghosts of shattered memory
Rise and pour through me like a river
Of all the days of my life I knew you
Here beside me
Stretching rainy riversides
From Daniel Street to Dublin
Watching me from the edge of the light
To the streets and parks of London
A cry in an empty room
A run down an open hill
A spirit that defies every ill
And I loved you for that
And in the sweeping tide of time
With the surging bank of despair
I'd hear the voice of your eyes
In the knowing silence
And that alone would make me smile
I carried more than your love
That's not what I was wary of
I could live with any amount
If I could learn to live with myself
Love, what have I become?
Did I pass through your life blindly?
Outside, black ribbons of rain
Fall like an answer
