Geometry Of Lawns

Leaving came to us
 Just like a song
 A dull geometry of lawns
 The sense that you are still a stranger
 But we were born
 To fade away like light
 Looking sideways into life
 There is no reason we should stay here
 And I know you are listening to this song
 Late in a still room with your lover
 Now see that moon above the edge of speech
 As we flicker like a screen and we are gone
 Once a spell of grace
 Came over me
 And I walked on through empty streets
 Redbricks, sweat shops and madrassahs
 Inside everything
 I heard a voice
 Mechanical, beyond itself
 Like the sentence of a dreamer
 And I know you are listening to this song
 Late in a still room with your lover
 Now see that moon above the edge of speech
 Out here beyond your reach I'm singing on