Saline Grace Border Town Shades
Once more the train stopped
In the town of my irksome birth
And my contorted reflection
Was breaking away from
The silent spectacle behind
The old window's cloudiness
Unspeakably blind eyes
Welcomed me home
With glances dedicated
To suspicious strangers
Who threatened the
Standstill
While I was crossing a ghost town
I reached the river on the edge
The stream was flowing cleaner
But dirtier in knowledge
Realizing the final decline
I remembered
Those companions
Who meant a lot to me
But who fed the unholy maw
Of jealous estrangement
The beginning rain became a flood
And a lunatic reverend screamed out of
The protestant's house about wiping out
The evil through the hands of his Lord
I remembered the devil of my childhood
Who still was fairly alive
Revealing the old parson's cursed lies
The murder of mine had failed twice though
In defiance of the devil's willing hands
Those waters of the opened sky above
I reached my early childhood's empty house
Which made me think of the woman
Who had given birth to me
Weakness had led to the betrayal of her son
And had been the devil's strength
But through grey windows
I saw the light of my cloudy days
In the good eyes of that soul
Who had been stronger
Than her daughter
The subsiding rain washed away
The scum in the streets
But I saw a gross town dweller
Smugly swaggering along these streets
I recognized the one he never wanted to be
Walking on his circular trails
Once more the train
Would stop in the town
Of my irksome birth
Taking me away from
The river's knowledge