Cover art for Heaven and the Night Tide by W. Ian O’Byrne

Heaven and the Night Tide

Feb. 23, 20141 viewer

Heaven and the Night Tide Lyrics

He regarded the stars in the cold dark.
They were a long way off, and he decided, watching them blink,
that perhaps they did not speak for him.

Compared to the distance between him and them,
the outside-looking-in feeling was sitting in a sad, angry chair.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

and noticed that she was there, a shadow parked between times.
Out across the horizon where the half-moon poured thin light
across cresting waves. Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

enwrought with golden and silver light.
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths;
I thought, I would spread the cloths under your feet.

He started when she approached, smiled, and she said, “Hi, stranger.”
And he said, “You don’t know how I feel about you,”
And she said “Then show me.” He thought for a while,

and she thought of leaving again. The moon light in that silence
was thin like paper. Spelled of the night, neon light, and the half-light,
and he said, “I love you.” And she said, “Liar.”

It was clear that they were not polite, but he pleaded.
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Lines remixed from:
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, William Butler Yeats
The Seventh Night, Robert Hass

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February 23, 2014
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