Big Light

I was stuck in the ground

Trying to cover my eyes.

Trying to move all this light.

I spent all night

Trying to remember your face.

Like trying to get blood from a stone.

But there was nothing to save.

And no one to lie to.

And I watched as the bone dust hung in the sky.

Like a dim flock of endless prayers.

And I spent my days out chasing the wind.

Trying to turn gold from your hair.

But there was nothing to save

In the flux and decay

Of the changing winds.