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Trick Of The Light
A Punch Of Pacifist

A Sunday proposal you got on one knee

down on Old Harold's farm, picnic under a tree

do you remember how a trick of the light turned the sky green?

scraped up enough, barely enough to get by

and we bought that land when Old Harold retired

you wore those brown military shoes

married in fifty-two

you built this house with those slender strong hands

and a family was raised, grandchildren were planned

a spot of dirt but Heaven all our own

now I salt this earth


mortality binds, no one is truly free

sometimes tricks of light are all we see


hair cropped short, you never lost that style

even with the long hair we wore

nineteen-seventy-four

when we lost our first child to war

your strength kept me strong then

a massacre of fine mind brought down too fast

like paint peeling off a barn

life fades, it don't last

I've never seen you look so confused, and I'm asking God what to do

Is the Good Book being untrue?

That bad things can't happen to good people like you?


Seems like dust swept under the rug

Time slips by, it's never enough


Now as you lay

As I watch you fade

With eyes that stare, lost and away

Tell me what do you see? Skies of green?


Points of will shine like star

No matter how lost I know who you are


A miracle of clarity came so few and far between

As I see in your eyes who you used to be

Your rough voice begins to rasp, begging,

set me free


please help me dear, before I lose my head

I can't take another day of lying here in bed

Seeing ghosts from afar, my life hijacked like a car

And the worst is being condemned to live not remembering who you are.

the pain is so great, can't help but lie awake

And the shadows on the wall, echo past mistakes

As demons tear my life away, while everyone else stays the same.

At times I can't remember your name

I can't do it myself would you please remove these chains?


My own life cried out, brought the walls crashing down

I will partake of your strength

Kitchen knife on the shelf

Don't judge me tell me what you'd do

If your own loved one begged the same of you?


A Sunday requiem, if you ever happen to see

2 bodies buried, headstone under a tree

Look for a trick of the light turning the sky green


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