Where has the love gone to

Where has the love gone to

The performance ended

Do we no longer care

The garden untended

All at once pure brilliance

Like a comet, not stars

Blazing, burning, leaving

For a moment, just ours

There is a true sadness

There is a true sadness

In the leaves, in sunlight

In the way shadows move

Like the head of a kite

Or slow waves of a hand

Not greeting, waving bye

As the sun bears down and

Moves slowly through the sky

A Life without prospects

A Life without prospects

Unmovable fences

Unable to break through

There’s no future tenses

Nowhere a beginning

Fighting feeling flustered

Bang and beat the drums with

All that I have mustered

Between the words, the pause

Between the words, the pause

Like a sky through the leaves

A soft place to land where

The words are sure to breathe

When the heart doesn’t beat

For a second at rest

Then life resumes again

With the thump of the chest

Not enough to survive

Not enough to survive

Needing validation

It’s hard to find justice

Let alone salvation

Searching for the moment

When Truth stands up with pride

And the wielding gavel

Passes laws to abide

On a Tuesday evening

On a Tuesday evening

I sang a song to you

It was the month of May

Yet nothing felt brand new

This was our last moment

Before the great divide

Our hearts were Empire tall

Victoria Lake wide

There is the overwhelm

There is the overwhelm

In sunlight, in the breeze

Permeating through Life with

The sound of jingling keys

Closer to the locks and

Solving the mystery

And then the underwhelm

Never in history