Please come on in close the draft from the opening
Whistling on in a wind nudges the curtains
Can’t seem to keep all the outside outside
Taking its toll with an outsized influence
Holding the prize of a long day’s pittance
Alone in a room ringing keys from a nail
Clenching your knuckles until they’re pale
No one’s there
Clouds of miasma disturbing your workflow
Just like the man staring in through your window
Anxiously queuing the next chore on your list
He speaks for you like a cruel ventriloquist
Taking your voice as a hostile witness
Just think of something to dispel the whispers
Silence returns with a vengeance familiar
No one’s there, no one’s there
Nesting a new home with earnest intention
Feeling is fleeting with no heat retention
There was a time when the weight didn’t phase me
Hush those alarms set aside for the daydream
Please come on in, you just crossed a whole ocean
Followed me here just to stand outside
Cold wind leaks in from all the sides
Home leaving me nowhere to
Hide from the ghost mandate, your legacy
Worry lines of a love impressed on me
You were resting your head on mine
Some tenderness might turn me kind
You rocking in your wicker chair
In quiet moments I repair
A disappointed knowing stare
The lights will flicker you’re still there
credits
from Ghost Mandate,
released June 1, 2021
Thanks to Karl for the keys
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