Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋

Mess We're In - PJ Harvey/Your Harmony

PJ Harvey
Mess We’re In

Strumming strings in your white gown, I linger,
humming my hymns in heartfelt ignorance.

Please don’t give up on me before I give up
on myself, plying your anthems unattuned.

This gravel, smoothing, rises above the small buildings,
bound eternal like damnation to hard ground.

Your ignorance strums sweet bliss I yearn match,
agony gripping tight these tender-meaning chords.

Bittersweet, our symphony attempted, you know
all the cues, lining sounds with concrete words.

Our divise harmony, raining on rooftops, separates
my voice; never waves like a red banner for you,

fly like love, aiming not to hit hard the sharpest
pitches where my songs catch like errant balloons.

This emblematic cape draped around my neck tangles,
fumbling down in a clump at your careless feet.

You take your harmonic  instrument to an open street;
chain me to the hydrant, just so I can see you go.


For:
"The Soundtrack of Your Life"