Semaphore - Headspace

There are things that no one can deny

Life is short and quickly passes by

Thoughts are formed, problems ironed out

Guilt and worry soon become regret

Then there is a time for reasoning

Hours fly by ruminating

What you saw can’t be what it was

Where are the dreams you struggled for?

I thought you’d understand

Taken by the hand

Here then something changes

You’ve taken a little of my life

Thrown it down before my eyes

Grilled it and criticized

Ever the wiser

Emotions and pleasure

From that second it tears you to go

I would answer

Each question they’d ask me

Always taking interesting roads

Easily please them with banter

I’d tease them and

Invitations ensued

I’ll never know why

I’d taken the last train that evening

I should have just gone straight home

Didn’t they know why the signal had changed?

Didn’t they know why the signal had changed?

Didn’t they know why?

Didn’t they know why?

Didn’t they know why the signal had changed?

There was a man standing on the forecourt of a railway station

Waving his arms, trying to catch your attention

He waited outside your window as you got up this morning

Signaling like a fool, trying to make contact

In the hope to avoid the catastrophe that awaits you

He now sits incapacitated on the curb outside your work

Wondering why he was ever given the job to pre-warn you

Some say he is an angel

A personal semaphore

I believe

He’s a figment of your imagination