Spirited - Laura Gibson

Our bodies still as photographs

Beg the ground to swallow us

And press our lonesome silhouettes into the dirt

Light reflecting off your face

Casting colors on your cheeks

I saw you shining

Saw you shining

Brighter than before

Autumn bears a bitter song

Creeping out across the yard

And weaving through the alder branches overhead

Of all that is escaping us

I have never been so certain as today

When the seasons settle in our lungs

They’ll harden us, they’ll cover us in crows

But cannot wash the laughter from our tongues

Time is quick to carry on

Certain as the morning tends to

Hollow us and turn our words to smoke

In all that is escaped us

And all that we could hold in place

I saw you shining

Saw you shining

Brighter than before