But when my curtain
comes down
will you still be around
Will you stay
standing
on the floor
hands clapping
asking for
an encore

I feel like a rabbit
caught in a stare
afraid that someone
may see me out there

I think I see them
They think they see me
My world is full of
enemies

I'm frozen like a statue
in the middle of town
pretending there's nobody
else around

Looks like I'm meditating but
Fear is my name
My movie has stopped
I'm stuck in a frame

There's an army of shadows
waiting in the wings
They want to come
and do some thing

I wish I could be
anywhere else
other than here
where I'm safe and well

Stop this world
I want to get off
this spinning stage
I've had enough

I dreamed I was a wind walker
saw my mind smile
defied the law of gravity
each stride almost a mile

Effortless I flew
like wind or like sound
gliding through the air
an inch above the ground

Elation best describes
the feeling in my mind
liberated from the land
and the life I left behind

We think we can see
You and me

I see you
You see me

but who do we really see?

I know there is no you
I know there is no me

so who
do we really see?

We see a projection screen
The world we see we dream
The people with their faces
this world with all it's places
as real as a rainbow
or a shadow show

This we need to know

Surgery they say for Keith
and he sees the surgeon soon
Then he waits and within eighteen weeks
knows the date he'll be off his feet

He's now in his eighties
and gets around without a walking stick
He says the surgery is a bother
and he's not looking forward to it

Daphne and Colin
Alan and Ron
Norman and Norma
Others whose names
we forget
All Dead

the secret code
to separate the coin from the gold
Just try
to separate your scream from
your night time dream
Just try
to separate the parts from the car
you won’t get very far
Just try
to separate the legs from the table
you’ll find you won’t be able
Just try
to separate the reader of this rhyme
from the being that survives
death time
Just try