When Tears Fall Flat - Forever Just Like That
I know where you can find a girl
with the power to make time stand still
Up 37 steps and left around the bend
you'll find her with her thoughts at peace
resting alone beneath the open window -
the muted breeze keeping her skin clean
and her mind seventeen
She'll be singing along to the faraway songs
of the party next door
She wasn't invited but still she attends
The music drifts on but the clock doesn't speak
She doesn't mind being kept from her sleep
She doesn't understand this power that we hold
the power to make the hours unfold
You'll find her in an empty box
made of leashes and tearful nightime wishes
in that 2-storeyed coma we used to call home
When you find her there taking refuge in the dark
tell her life will never care which moments she marks
Tell her I miss her when her tears fall flat
and make her promise to stay
forever just like that
When I'm looking for a starting point I often turn to my poetry book...
I plan to create a drawing/painting based on or inspired by this poem. At the moment, I am thinking something along the lines of an image of a girl sitting inside a clock face. Like all those old films where somebody cllimbs up the inside of big ben and then finds themself on the outside within the clock face.
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