In Motion

Didn't think today would be

The one that got away

Assumed you'd be, but not forever

Slipping in and out of frame

And in the absence of the night

The one I've known for all my life

Rearranged, a dying flame

Into memories and a name

You're a stranger to me now

So familiar, too, somehow

Even after medicine

The menace holds his gaze

He can see that I'm afraid

As I watch you fade away

And I would offer him a drink

But I know enough to think

There's no use in trying to persuade

From the cradle to the grave

You look different after dark

You're not a line, you're an arc

And I don't want to see it end

I find it hard to comprehend

But I cannot keep pretending

There is anything preventing you

Moving on

Moving on

Moving on

In this old abandoned house

A creature lies awake

Born beneath the rotting floorboards

Where the light will never take

When all that was has waxed and waned

Somehow nothing else has changed

Still in motion, left of frame

Gone as simply as you came