Great tower, built towards God
Came crumbling down
Felled by communication
As stones hit the ground

So long until we learned
To speak to each other
But based on how we talk
You would think...
...we constructed another

That say if you stand at Michigan and State
in Chicago long enough you will
meet someone you know.
My mother always said that.

Will I meet you there?  Will you
see the eager young woman you
once knew?  You know, the brunette,
thin, full of your blue eyes looking?

I will stand there for all the years
I have left.  I will shield myself
from disappointment, having forty
five years of practice, I wait
like Penelope.  You have only
to sail your ship to my side.

You are a voyage I can't
complete alone.  Raise your
red sails.  I stand on this
corner to save the life I
once threw away.  


Caroline Shank

I'll shut me down
I can't see anything left to save
We collapse and she relapses into all that she gave
An autopsy, an eternal grave:
These aren't the colours that I should see

hold...
hold on...
hold on to...
hold onto me...
hold me onto you...
you hold me...  but you hold on...
          ...you held me, but I hold you...
hold my back...
we hold on, being back to back...
I hold on tight...  holding your back...
          you hold me...
          ...but I only held you back.