Cold Flame - Maddy Prior

Clouds crush the setting sun

The sky is darkening grey

Restless whispering

The summer’s blown away

Bleak deserted arbors

That speak of absent friends

God forsaken wasteland

In time all friendship ends

Flame sears the sullen air

Scorching my land

Yonder swoops the black crow

To the wind’s command

Your body is warm

But your brain is cold

Leaving me lonely

Only emptiness to hold

The spine of love is snapped

There is nothing to be said

But the hollow in my belly

Sends an echo through my head

I ache to see you

To laugh with you again

But the voice that once caressed me

Is filled with disdain

Like a hurricane you came and shook my innocence

You woke me in every sense

And I ran bemused and excited, curious and delighted

But I could not hold you, like the wind you moved on

I stood rooted like a fool waiting for the sun

And bare trees trace their story

Of death of the sky

And the savage winter wind

Has a tear in its eye