Mina Harker

How your face has fallen to the cruel days
Like the leaves on the ground
Like the moth in my bedroom
In circles flying round and round
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The sun sets over the weary hills
And the yellow fields and dark hedgerows
And rows and rows of horizons piled up
One by one, one by one
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I can take your anger,
and walk away the while
Still smiling, in measured flight
I can walk that weightless mile
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My father brought bright laughter and
gave the mere inane and the mundane to the sunshine
Where we lived, all the time.
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The lights are on, in every town of England.
How I love to arrive, how I long to depart
Such are the crenelations in my heart
The lights are on, the evening has come
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I want to show you something.
There are lines of lights in the city streets
And time stops moving
Still
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It's simple enough to say 'I miss you' and mean it.

To those around who remind me of you
I can say 'you're like him' or 'he's like you'
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It's only a light breeze, but it's enough,
Somewhere a bird is shaking out leaves and twigs from her nest
And bits of feathers, bits of fluff
Floating past the trees like blossom
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Is there poetry in the parking lot?
In the grid like lines of Milton Keynes?
Behind the scenes the dead wind rustles and shakes water's sea-ward dreams
Is there poetry amid the reeking refuse and overflowing bins?
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I heard them sigh in the howling of the wind
For another day that slipped its way through their fingers.
It was dark then.
The world was covered with ashes.
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I lost you 15 years ago. I'm afraid I will lose you again.
If in 15 years time, I don't remember your voice, what then?
I've grown afraid of Autumn winds blowing dust off my heart.
My tears never turned to ice,
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A quiet breath, like horses galloping
The dark air is heavy, the night closing in.

There are thoughts at the edges
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She drew me in the shower, two eyes above a smile.
Her paintbrush was a finger, the canvas was a tile,
I hung there for a second as water welled up in my eye
She turned to go, and left alone, I cried and cried and cried.
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We communicate, you and I,
across vast landscapes,
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If I knew, somehow, that this were my last Spring
I would not sing
I would not praise the world for all the Springs that I had seen
I would not cry
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