Goodnight Josephine

I remember a girl on her cellphone

surrounded by her friends

eyes flickering she's trying

to smother her smile in her hands

Is it someone for us

someone more worry-free

someone who can say'

"leave the worrying about him to me Josephine"?



I remember you there in the last rays

of light at diplomacy's end

eyes flickering you're crying,

"but , isnt this when the crimes begin?"

when the people you want to don't

and the people who do

you don't believe

do you Josephine?



I remember you there at the table

surrounded by all the days plans

eyes flickering you're trying

to let a coffee cup warm your hands

maybe we're born lost

born to perserve

but honey I'd walk into your painting

until I reappeared

as a speck of comet-tail dust

a blue-green northern light

flickering just

in your eyes' deepest ravines

goodnight goodnight Josephine