Lost Verses

I came out from under her warm sheets

Into the brisk late October

If only for one last hope

I wanted my time with you to be over

I'm staring up into the sky

While all the raining is pouring down

I'm reaching out for your help

But evil beings hold me backwards

All shapes and shadows move in and out

And hover round my bed

Voices arrive and disappear

I want to talk to them

Darkness disintegrates

I'm rising I'm rising toward a light

A light leading over hills and meadows

I've risen up from the dead

With the burning leaves of autumn

If only for one last chance

That all of whom have been defeated

To put on my father's wool coat

To smell my mother's fragrances and perfumes

To find my young brothers and sisters

To never leave or let them go

Houses adorned so beautifully

The Marin headlands song

Lost verses well up my eyes and ears

The lone mandolin strums

On Tamalpais warm spring

The many places we

Lay down in sleepy hidden shadows

I see you well and clear

Deep in the moonlight dear

Your radiant august eyes

They are the suns that rise

They are the light that guides

They are these lost verses

I came up from under the ocean

Evaporated sea salt water

A mist above the skyline

I haunt the streets of San Francisco

Watch over loved ones and old friends

I see them trough their living room windows

Shaken by fear and worries

I want them to know how I love them so

Foghorns would sound in waking

Is it my voice you hear

Footsteps are moving across the floor

And you know I'm here

The afternoon carries up from the hills

And you are well and near

To fall into the light I follow

I feel you oh so near

When morning doves appear

And ghosts of April ring

Echo the refrain

Soon finding a place

In these lost verses

They fill the foggy day

They hide the hills away

That steal our time

They are the picturesque night

The casting city lights

On the bay flowing into the ocean glowing