OUR TURN

Bust my ass to make this happen

Bust my ass to make it true

In the darkness of this morning

Lie my thoughts of me and you

Wrapped around me like a blanket

Fleeting moments in a park

Oh such ways I'd like to know you

For endless hours in the dark

But the daylight is important

That's where I would like to be

And this morning, the rising sun

Brought this sudden thought to me

So much poetry of sunsets

That they all seem quite rehearsed

Yet in the moment of this dawning day

I see the sunset in reverse

Starting out with flecks of purple

Burning on to orange and red

Watch the burden of my fading past

Turn to hope instead

Auburn, blonde and copper

Break awake a bludgeoned sky

Send the past, a foreign burden

Into someone else's night

We've both carried this on purpose

This thickly woven tapestry

The blackness of their sordid lives

Their betrayal and their larceny

But as the day gives way

To bright and vibrant light

All that pain is just a memory

Of someone else's life

These strange things we share in common

This doesn't happen all the time

All the ways that we have suffered

Are just some errant pantomime

Of a life we could be living

Of this life that we have earned

The fulfillment of a promise

Truly time to take our turn