Losing You? – Written Sunday 17th December 1995 (Aged 20)

Losing You?

Losing you,
are you in my way?
Wisps of smoke —
are you in a witch’s coven?
Is this some kind of joke
just to ease the pain?

It’s been a few days since I was at ease.
Telephone —
just an unknown,
ready to stumble and ready to please.

This is the time
to be grown in your own home.
Magic music casts you across the sea,
but when I am alone
it’s then that you seem like the answer to me.

And as you get close,
I realise I need you,
but now I have become distant —
more than before then,
more than we occupied our yesteryear,
when I played a different game.

And to calm the pain, I shed a tear,
with lost shadows hanging on the wall.
Are you so far away
after all?
Now, now you seem so small.

James Garratt – Sunday 17th December 1995

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