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Star (of the County Down)

from Broken Road by Edward T. Jones

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Softly as the Beltane air
Singing it’s soliloquy
To meet you, eye for eye
So deeply in that ancient sea

Like rocks that line the story’s rue
Each whispered word, not yet apart
Beneath the boats that sail the sky
And journey to the restless heart

So, nobody warned you
How different it would be
When we drift off into night
When we disappear to dark
Go on, forget the light

The silence of a lover’s lamp
Which switches on, into the night
How terrible to share its sound
Its brightness, is it wrong or right?

These dreams were never our’s to own
Known poetry in words disguised
What’s neither flesh nor bone
It’s wish is to be memorized

So, nobody warned you
How different it would be
When we drift off into night
When we disappear to dark
Go on, forget the light

As earnest is to swallow whole
And none the more to follow suit
This darkness penetrates your soul
There’s more to come and none to boot

Oh, sweet disarray
The course of which must follow blind
The mountains where I’ll call my stay
To meditate and mend my mind

Your painted words erupt with scorn
A version of your body’s heat
Roses in the garden west
Send western winds that smell so sweet

I knew I’d find you in the tomb
With krakens of the stormy deep
The depth of which we never knew
No man alive can ever keep

So, nobody warned you
How different it would be
When we drift off into night
When we disappear to dark
Go on, forget the light

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from Broken Road, released August 23, 2020

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