Out of the Wilderness

As I was driving through the outskirts

Dylan’s Hurricane playing in my ears

The sun dances hot between golden leaves

The speed of autumn steals my fears

Matthew Arnold treat you gently

Edward Elgar dress away your pain

Your children love you for your pastry

A liar’s loss is now your gain

Our meeting was a true enigma

The wheel of fortune stopped right there

I’ll kiss your mouth my own dear Libra

Your sparkling love is sweet and fair

Matthew Arnold treat you gently

Edward Elgar dress away your pain

Your children love you for your pastry

A liar’s loss is now your gain

Dance with me in fields of fancy

Let’s hold hands to stand against the storm

This life is a delicate wild pansy

Our quickening love has just been born

Matthew Arnold treat you gently

Edward Elgar dress away your pain

Your children love you for your pastry

A liar’s loss is now your gain

Come to me in darkening dreams

By day we’ll both be well once more

And the night will sew silken seams

To bind us closer on a distant shore

Matthew Arnold treat you gently

Edward Elgar dress away your pain

Your children love you for your pastry

A liar’s loss is now your gain

Poem: September Song

Boots and bottles and a telescope reel
No-one knows just how I feel
Sitting blindly by a Catherine Wheel
I open my arms to you

Write me a song to sing all day long
Catch me a tune to howl at the moon
Watch me waltz on a silver spoon
I open my arms to you

My golden daughter does what she oughta
Reading medical books with whisky and water
The words get longer but never shorter
I open my arms to you

The breakdown came the breakdown went
Forty-four years they were paid and spent
I’ll pack up my shoes and buy a new tent
I open my arms to you

The sun still warms the September air
The grass is green and the day is fair
I look at my life with barely a care
I open my arms to you

The fox it will run and the bat does fly
The poacher stares at the empty sky
Time it passes with no reason to cry
I open my arms to you