I can see them now

Kaleidoscopes of tumbling frames

Whispers through the mist

Sweet nostalgia’s childhood games

Clowning in the sand

Turn the tide back hand in hand

First love’s tender rise

As my life flashes before my eyes

 

Come and lay her down

In the fields of golden brown

Nails across his skin

Fireworks as she’s falling in

Come back from the road

House of echoes, loss and lies

Screaming off her cloud

As her life flashes before her eyes

 

Sitting by their side

Tubes and wires and subtle breaks

A shadow on the wall

A choice no-one should need to make

Now it’s at the edge

The microscopic demon spreads

She takes her new disguise

As her life flashes before its eyes

 

Copyright J. Davies 2023