Always Turn Away - Mark Eitzel

There are pools across the tidal plain

That look like white sheets draped across

The vacuum beyond our conversation

The thread of our lives unraveling

Always turning away

Away

Away

The tide makes all our decisions for us

It breathes just like a pearl accordion

The water softly inches for your eyes

Kisses the soft skin under your disguise

Always turning away

Away

Away

Always facing away

Away

Away

Under the sun we flood across the shallows

And lay on our backs

Gleaming like liquid pearls

The wind and the light

Give us up a show of hands

Gives us to any justice that’ll have us

Always turning away

Away

Away

Always facing away

Away

Away