Your Absence

In your absence I find myself
Church bells ringing in the distance,
Religion the enemy's tangent
Discordant, foreign, nonsensical.
A fool's alphabet is clear only to one
The divine, the outrageous
Knee-deep in a haystack
The girl struggles to the top
Losing her eye on the needle
A poignant feature worth keeping

Boy blue is another ball game
His head in the arbitrary muck
What happened to Lady Luck?
Enough of the self-righteous edge
Blades don't cut war, guns do.
Gamble to the meadow
The green green grass of arsenic
Two sparrows in a head lock
Query the heather
The secrets are tantamount,
Bursting from your eardrums
Let them loose!
A nuclear plant couldn't hold me
Not after the last spill

Anchor the armada before they hit the canal
The concept so abstract you can't snatch it from hell
Where was I when you spoke those words aloud
In that moment orchestrated by a deity himself

Absent as ever, now watch me disappear.
Down into the heather
Keeps me safe from your fear.
It wasn't the world that cast me out
It was you in your absence
Feeding a drought.