She is coming along the cold, damp street,
Walking in the Moon Grove light,
She wants for nothing, I feel released,
The future has kindly passed me by.
I look to the light, the burning sun,
I have made this new life my own,
Yet still the mills and coal mines,
Always, those shadows follow.
I come home on this faraway ferry,
I walk on land with its own dark story,
Told by people for as long as time,
As long as a song line memory.
I watch the children playing,
Some with skin that easily burns,
Then I remember the blackened sleet,
Falling as freezing acid rain.
I think of cotton dust in choking mills,
The hellish pits, the frozen hills,
The silent eyes of deep distrust,
The bitter tongue, the iron will.
You held them close, for safety,
Safety not yours, but mine,
A child was born, another died.
Your life was lost, but I survived.
The lines of my nerves, my frozen verse,
Followed the path of your songs,
The clatter of words, told me to run,
By the light on the damp, dark stones.
This child, she has your eyes that burn,
And skin that sees and feels,
In one glance of a shuttered lens,
I see past and future meet.
She is back in the cold, damp street,
Standing in the Moon Grove light,
She wants for nothing, I feel released,
The future has kindly passed me by.
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