So It Goes

Ashes

Ashes cast into the blue rolling wave
Memories pour through the pen on paper
Take my classified ad for a caper
Mother, forgotten, she never forgave
Never mind whether others wished to save
The young devotee within the vapor
A brief glimpse of the one that would rape her
Stranger left the girl in the field grave
In those swift moments a newborn mother
She stood up real high to fall down quite ill
Passerby saved your soul from a room dark
Nowadays in Brooklyn with young brother
Your ashes swim in the Atlantic still
We mostly remain your last living spark

- © Brett Holden

I suppose that's what I get for listening to a lot of Death Cab For Cutie.

Its odd to observe individuals that have grown up together their whole lives. When so many powerful forces begin to pull them apart there are equal and opposite reactions. One responds by pulling the other towards them and the other pushes them away out of fear. So it goes.