Retreat To Find - Ben Watt

The supplicant stands at the foot of the cross

Seventeen lines of persimmon thread

Pillar of white, colourless skin

All of his prayers in a plume of light

Retreat from the ties that bind

Retreat to eventually find

Retreat from the ties that bind

Retreat to eventually find

Daffodils bloom by the churchyard wall

The grounds of the vicarage overgrown

Pushing the cart to the top of Old Down

Under a long godless summer night

Retreat from the ties that bind

Retreat to eventually find

Retreat from the ties that bind

Retreat to eventually find

Here, here in my heart

There is a place

Where I can outface

Death

Retreat from the ties that bind

Retreat to eventually find

Retreat from the ties that bind

Retreat to eventually find

Here, here in my heart

There is a place

Where I can outface

Death