SONG FOR THE END

One night you argue until you’re tired and you
Open the door and three birds fly away
As if they were speaking secrets about you
It’s night and three birds fly away

And you hope the gossips understand your secrets
Birds flash red throats and thread through the sky
Where have you been that birds speak your secrets?
Will they understand later and elsewhere in the sky?

And this will never happen again
The birds have flown with your secrets to heaven
Where will you go where have you been?
And this will never happen again

Your reason is bird gossip
And the three birds have all flown
And the gossip breaks down to metered prayer
And the birds have become unreasonable angels
Singing back all you’ve ever known

And you stand at the door and watch
The night birds fly away with your secrets
And you turn back to the kitchen table with
New love in your heart

And you take your lover’s hands
And you have no secrets
You are understood elsewhere you have no reason for reasons
The birds have told your secrets as light to the heavens

And this will never happen again
And this will never happen again
And this will never happen again
And this will never happen again

The end

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