Women Left Alone

Woman left alone

Tired, waiting

Call me out through the fog.

The time for verse

Is dead and gone

Time for us is now.

Woman left speechless

Hollow, empty

Ebb through me

Speak without a sound

Dance around the fire

Dance with my words

Red, like the evening

Red, when you were born.

Woman left laughing

Scant and vacant

Reaching for someone else’s hand

And leaving without a bow

Time for words is dead and lost

Time for us is now.

So woman, yield to me

All your weapons and armour

All the tricks that you employ

Take from me my wretched empires

And all my forgotten toys.

As I come to you

Woe begotten and hands tied

Clean and purged from within

Tell me a day will come

When the sun rises from your eyes

And settles beneath your skin.