Lifelines

R Edgar 2006

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The sun was peach, the water blue

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They both eased their way into this evening’s charcoal dusk.

Em C

I speak, and ship horns interrupt

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bass clarinets with their wood throats cut

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This day is dying darlin’

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But I’m here, resting on your shore.

A path was here, but’s now defaced

The waves erased our conquistador footprints long ago.

Hearts and doors have opened and shut

fresh homes built with their front yards cut

My thoughts are skippin’ darlin’

I’m tossing shells from your shore.

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What would it be to know what Mother Earth feels

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With centuries of blood and tragic appeals

Bleached from concrete and sky,

Leached from soil and shivering Loreli.

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The opaque truth that for we who are alive

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Life’s measures can be found after sensing that we will die.

The sky is red, the water black

The rising lights force widening cracks into morning, once again.

A wing descends to kiss a mutt

Boats are drifting with their lifelines cut

A new day is comin’, darlin’,

We dream together, on this sandy shore.