I wish you were here

I wish you were here to share the city with me
A band is playing with a gathering crowd
Bright red balloons are sky high and their children cling on to hope

I want those flashing lights

If we cant teach children to be good without enchantment
We will kill one another
We will kill one another

I'm noticing

The way you're moving in your sleep
The way you look before you leap
The strange illusions that you keep
You don't know but I'm noticing.

Barefoot

Did you know its the most beautiful feeling walking barefoot in the middle of road in the dead of night when the air is refreshingly cold and the only sound is the bumping and tugging of the balloon tied around your wrist and the distant cars that sound like a whispering wind. And when I walk past silent houses, especially when its darkest, I can't help thinking of what my own house looks like when everyone is asleep and the only cause of movement is the wind.

When I Am Dead

When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me:
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

Christina Rossetti

Today

Today I saw you and thought of me.