Thursday, June 28, 2012

Those impatient shadows

Those impatient shadows

grey persuaders
those impatient shadows
walking in step with me
two timing dance partners
sneaky fellows

grey persuaders
those impatient shadows
at my back
pushing me into dark pools
of my own matter

grey persuaders
those impatient shadows
attack my good sense
make me fall out
of doubt on to my own arrows

grey persuaders
those impatient shadows
take a little glance
turn it into an obsessed trance
believe my own chatter

grey persuaders
those impatient shadows
clamp on their cuffs
knock me down
lock me up rough

grey persuaders
those impatient shadows
my personal guides
take me to dangerous places
lead me into riptides

no safe bets
no way  home
with those grey persuaders
those impatient shadows
stuck at my side

2 comments:

  1. J - makes me think of Dementors from Harry Potter books. I like the clarity of the personification in this songpoem, how the temptations are characterized as "impatient." A very succinct way to point at the motivation behind those shadows.

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