through a window I rewind my life

the words I never seemed to utter

dreams that turned to piles of dust

it's better to pull down the shutter

that's the woman I didn't marry, a

love affair left to wither and stutter

her tears fall like rain in the street

it's better to pull down the shutter

sins of youth that seemed so bland

echo down the hot concrete gutter

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the future has ghosts too

queuing up just waiting

we give them substance

by living dying mating

sometimes you get hints

they call it premonitions

or that indefinable frisson

whatever the definitions

clairvoyant at the seaside

read my palm for sixpence

said I'd wed a gyspy, who

did have a second sense

lit me with superstitions

she could read my ...

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I stayed put, you moved on

With not a backward glance,

Its cold and dark down here

Hearing your merry dance

I'm in limbo now, forgotten

My spirit unable to restart

Trapped and left for dead

In the cellars of your heart

This place has other ghosts

Chains clanking like mine

Brooding sadly about how

You must be doing so fine

We're so near yet so far ...

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