Then Danced A Shadow
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Flashes from long ago…
That won’t fade away
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Trimmed these sails
To light in your port
Then danced away
Fear, just me
Same as ever so
Twixt these twin shadows
I am not torn
Yet have these relics been only
One a wound as will not close
Twins adored
Riddled to shreds
My heart and my mind
I’ve walked me to a spiral
That loops returnt to itself
Of touches unendured
O lust that betrays me
Let me distill this dream
For I touched not thy tresses
That last time so fair
Though twas cold bitter cold
For fear or was it fear?
For some thing I dared not again
O why did I pull loose
This anchor when not half set?
Open these arms this time an’ I return
Two shadows
My sails have harbor’d
Between thy ports
Mooring in but the one
Though the other left fair trade
O let me be, cursed dreaming
Let my breath be my own
Or let down thy slip
Let me mind this fair haven
The dark one that has haunted me so
Think this paradox?
No but painful
To dream to lift this fair veil
Of the white
Of the fountain
Of the longest long lingering
Let me come here
Or throw me to the stars
And let me ne’er hear again
Nor see with these eyes
These browning lands ever.
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Prelude To The End Of The Game
(I’ve never been able to figure out what Sting meant in this song, but I’ll put it to my own use)
The fox is done running
And the beast is at bay
He’d run them in circles
By the end of the day
They chased him through brambles
They chased him through the fields
They could chase him forever
But the fox would not yield
And some saw her shadow
On the crest of a hill
And the hounds were distracted
Away from the kill
One day we’ll reach a great ocean
At the end of a pale afternoon
And we’ll lay down our heads just like we were sleeping
And be towed by the drag of the moon
We ran through the forest
And we ran through the streams
And we ran through the heather
Though we ran in our dreams
You were my lover
And I was your beau
We ran like the river
For what else did we know
One day we’ll reach a great ocean
At the end of a pale afternoon
The dogs are all worn out
And the horses are lame
The hunters and hunted
At the end of the game
Our love was a river
A wild mountain stream
In a tumbling fury
On the edge of a dream
And they chased us through brambles
And they chased us through fields
They could chase us forever
But the heart would not yield
When the fox is done running
At the end of the day
I’m ready to answer
I’m ready to pay
And this river’s done running
And time will come soon
Carried to the great ocean
By the drag of the moon