Beautiful Amnesia

She cannot speak of all the vocabulary she knows
Vastness of bittersweet tinges in blue black sorrows
So she stands centre stage with a smile on her face
Blocking out the spotlight with sunglasses in place
All around her lies an audience dressed in deepest black
A loud sigh of expectation, a hush then a solitary clap
She opened her mouth but she had forgotten the encore
Where are the neon cues and where is her exit door
There she froze in fear when she realised she’d been blind
And then she knew that the world had only been unkind
This is the story of the sweetest heroine of our play
She pirouetted on her toes and fell onto a ground of clay
The floor crumbled into pieces as her smile started to crack
And from the darkness they started to clap and clap and clap

A river of you … a lake to wade through
I am wet and shivering but let me
Put my blanket around you
An ocean of you … a shore to swim to
I am scared and so tired but let me
Hold your hand and let us get through
One day there will be soft sand
Beneath our aching kicking feet
One day there will be a crystal rainbow
So strong its colours are all that we see
For every grain of pain that hides within
holds the seed of tiny new universes
For every single tear that I drop for you
falls for their own mysterious reasons
I can already smell the million raindrops
Holding quivering seeds of better days
There will be new rivers and new lakes
and I will still be flowing with you
Put my blanket around you
An ocean for you … a shore to swim to …