Her Voices

Looking at you

I see her face

Through all these years

Just waiting

It all catches up to you when you slow down

I'm back in that yard

Tasting that shame

Of pushing her down

Of kids and their games

Their strongholds

We had a bigger world

We had a better view

I guess I never fully realized then

What she lost when I cut that loss

So she filled the void

With unearthly friends

Voices of hers

Greater

We had a bigger world

We had a better view

I wish she'd never told us about her voices

We were strong we were much too strong

Never forgive no

Never forget never forget

Never forgive

Never forget never forget

We picked and pierced we ripped and we tore

We hit and we scratched to make in her a hole

Glares and eyes whispers and notes

Attached to her every pose

We fed her shouts

For the collection of her voices

I

Their ugly truth

Was too weak

Outnumbered by

To collect

Her beautiful dream

But so it turned out

And I closed my eyes

Was she both paid in soul

Were her eyes in yours already when we met

For the cutting of that loss

Am I still paying debts to recover life

Proved to be right

As she was called down

It's sad though

That I turned out to be one of her voices