Lost Verses

I came out from under her warm sheets
 Into the brisk late October
 If only for one last hope
 I wanted my time with you to be over
 I'm staring up into the sky
 While all the rain is pouring down
 I'm reaching out for your help
 But evil beings hold me backwards
 All shapes and shadows move in and out
 And hover round my bed
 Voices arrive and disappear
 I want to talk to them
 Darkness disintegrates
 I'm rising, I'm rising toward a light
 A light leading over hills and meadows
 I've risen up from the dead
 With the burning leaves of autumn
 If only for one last chance
 That all of whom have been defeated
 To put on my father's wool coat
 To smell my mother's fragrances and perfumes
 To find my young brothers and sisters
 To never leave or let them go
 Houses adorned so beautifully
 The Marin headlands sun
 Lost verses well up my eyes and ears
 The lone mandolin strums
 On Tamalpais warm spring
 The many places we
 Lay down in sleepy hidden shadows
 I see you well and clear
 Deep in the moonlight dear
 Your radiant august eyes
 They are the suns that rise
 They are the light that guides
 They end these lost verses
 I came up from under the ocean
 Evaporated sea salt water
 A mist above the skyline
 I haunt the streets of San Francisco
 Watch over loved ones and old friends
 I see them through their living room windows
 Shaken by fear and worries
 I want them to know how I love them so
 Foghorns would sound in waking
 Is it my voice you hear?
 Footsteps are moving across the floor
 And you know I'm here
 Laughter carries up from the hills
 And you are well and near
 To fall into the light I follow
 I feel you, oh so near
 When morning doves appear
 And gusts of April rain
 Echo the refrain
 Soon finding a place
 In these lost verses
 They fill the foggy day
 They hide the hills away
 That steal our time
 They are the picturesque night
 The casting city lights
 On the bay flowing into the ocean glowing