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There Are Times

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There Are Times

When the lights go down
And you're shown to your chair,
And it all comes around
To truth or dare,
And every eye frowns
And every face stares,
You can see where you're going
But you can't get there.

And there are times
When I am walking
Through the forest,
And I imagine there are fairies,
And that they can hear me sing
As they lounge on crimson couches
And they polish painted wings.
And I do not move my lips
And I do not make a sound,
But I am singing to the forest
All around.

I called to no one in the shadows
And he came to speak with me.
He told me of the grass-green dragon
That lives across the sea.
I said "But there's no dragon,"
And no one smiled and said, "That's true."
And then no one disappeared
And now here I am with you.

And there are times
When I am walking
Through the forest,
And I hope that there are fairies,
And that they can hear me sing
As they lounge on crimson couches
And they polish painted wings.
And I do not move my lips
And I do not make a sound,
But I am singing to the forest
All around.

I am digging a hole
Through the earth with a spoon.
I am fed on green tea
And slices of moon.
I tie back my apron
With beams of sunlight,
And I pin up my hair
With the stars of the night.

And there are times
When I am walking
Through the forest,
And I know that there are fairies,
And that they can hear me sing
As they lounge on crimson couches
And they polish painted wings.
And I do not move my lips
And I do not make a sound,
But I am singing to the forest
All around--

Singing silence to the fairies
All around.
This is something I wrote a number of years ago, but I was going through old papers and found it again and discovered I still like it. I think it has aged well for me just because it doesn't try to "be" anything--don't dig for meanings in it, there aren't any. It is very studied, very affectedly mysterious nonsense, just a collection of words that roll around well in my mouth.
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Evealyn's avatar
Odd...And yet somehow appealing.