Remember looking at the haunted race,
Remember looking for a familiar face,
but no one there to mourn
Staring high, silent schemes
Plastic tubes to carry fading dreams
A creature servant in the hall
Warm blood on the palace walls
Those who died alone in hell
Wearing grief in their lapel
Crop small, changing wish and will
A haunted tear that never fell
Someone is dragging a fallen chain
Looking for you in the pouring rain
While those who care give silent prayer
If there was a brickwork surrounded the
There were secrets locked in steel
There's a but ton you can press
There's a place you want to hear
If you were born in the barbed
wire of your mother's womb
If you were hungry before you died
above all clean and white
Remember the poet who said it first
Speaking of you and your difficult birth
And how you care and say your prayers
Drinking from an empty cup,
waiting for a rock to grow
Whispered sounds that can't be heard,
Children who don't mind the rain,
Whatever you are, wherever I could have been,
you'd feel better if you could cry
People massing in the streets
Trampled heads beneath their feet
Children playing with the dead
Silver stones stain your breath
Watching through a widow's veil
You sit all alone in your
You look so small and frail
You're the foot on the feet
Your darkness comes too soon
Cuban watches and girly photographs
You're a masterpiece in ruin
You're a panel of a whole
You should have a degree in poetry
You should be incarcerated
Did you ever listen to the
Did you ever stop to ask?
Did you ever smile behind
Did you ever lift your mask?
Did you ever run with your feet on fire?
Did you ever take a pricey ride?
You know you look like you belong
Did you really think that you'd be left
Where war is life an d life is death?
