I awoke like a bullet.
For one dreadful moment...

I can no longer count the tears,
Endless and silent they have fallen...

Forgive until tomorrow for I cannot write,
For fear that stalks me on this silent night...

Endless dreadful winters have melted into the...
Since we last shared cigarette and hope by the...

Cradle me now, allow my dying heart to weep,
Inside your tender caring arms...

Where dark days cast the smallest shadows,
You might look for me...

Through mists of doubt and veils of blackness,
I peered into arenas never built...

By the time you arrived home that morning,
I had convinced myself that you had gone forever...

Alight across the crowded bar room,
Through the suffocating air...

This morning dawned before the yesterdays had...
As you lie somewhere in your somewhere cots...

If truth were to tell or begin to explain,
How tonight's lasting memories had all turned to...

FOR MUM AND DAD
How pitiful your loving be...