Sunday, November 14, 2010

Ice Wine

A slow leak at first as you leaned on the door.

Opening out into a stark new world.....

These mountains unfamiliar, the feeling is strange,

Someone take me into a safe place.....


So the story goes,

like starlit ambrosia

sweet ice wine

in the comfort of your walls

you will be just fine

you will be just fine…..


You left me alone in a house by the river

It was cold up there, my life was a shiver

I brought open heart, and you took it, your toll

Now I know, baby,

how cold….

how cold....

how cold those northern winds blow.


Across frozen tarmac, I boarded the plane,

turmoil inside guided steady gate,

The only way to walk and not to shake,

Was to breath, following thought, following grace, grant me grace!

Sorrow; it raked its claws thru my life

And I took flight, into the unknown night.


Why we chose what was chosen, I’ll never know

Sometimes this is just the way that we grow...



So the story goes,

like starlit ambrosia

sweet ice wine

in the comfort of your walls

you will be just fine

you will be just fine…..



so now, two people, and two dirty cups,

wash it out, and fill it up,

I'll toast to the passing!


drink it down as you pass it round,

the sweetness is gone from the grapes this year....

bitter brew brewing in this town,

just who is doing what has yet to go down...


bitter brews, drunken late with haste,

stumbling home waste, I can see your face in all my emptyness...

wet morning dew

I can't, but remember that I miss you....


bitter, it destroys the taste, but cuts the mind

clearing up thoughts to be undermined, combined, intertwined.

If we kept at it, we'd be doing just fine...

But anyways,

If you keep at it, you'll do just fine....

just keep in mind...


too hot, too long, runs out of steam

an empty kettle awaiting a scream

so the story goes,


like starlit ambrosia

sweet ice wine

in the comfort of your walls

you will be just fine

you will be just fine

I wished you here,

and you wished me well

the truth in those words

and down love fell

down, down, down, love fell,

down, down, down love fell.