(When the Shadow Falls)

When the shadow falls

And I am invisible and quiet

I can't hear your songs

Through the wind

At my window

I was just trying

To get at something real

Write it down

Sing it out

Now my mouth

Is a corner of the broken night

I shift my shape

Lie

Shirk the light

Afraid of being rightly tried

As a coward who goes inward

To avoid the noise

Of the earthy violence

Of survival

I've been putting things in their places

I tidy as I go

In the spring I'll remove the plastic

From all the windows

I've let myself

Become a body

Without a consistent guiding story

I told myself

I'd get in touch

On the other side

On the other side

On the other side

On the other side

When the shadow falls

Well, I don't resist at all

Anymore