Park Bench

I was burning through a life on fire

And when you breathe you feed the flame

Only ashes will remain

On a park bench in a city

Sat a faceless winter coat

Told me blood is water

You'll deny me later

Hanging Chinese lantern riddles from your trees

When you have no answers

Careful that you don't wake up, keep dreaming of me

Knowing you'll never understand

On either side of the river lies

In fields of barley rye

A clover world that drakes the sky

In the ivory heat of morning

Through the mercy of the sun

You were searching for me

Worship stone on hillsides

Saw the shape of the clothelike

That could not be wind

There was something watching

And I heard a whispered curse that was on me

As it left or chose to stay

As a child I saw the glory of

Every tower raised in stone

Built for soul and not for bone

To conceal the dark from sunlight

You can never build too high

And I never solved it

It was lost in the ether

And I know you've seen my candle in the night

I will come to call you

And I'll call at the bloodhounds if and

When you escape and try to run from me