Blue Remembered

A shadow all in black Thrown on the cul-de-sac In a tackle of spokes I stood upright and rode Myriad window frames Many houses with names Everglade, Albion Lakewood, Arcadia This is not where you are This is not where we are I rode to right the pain And over and again Fill internal ravines If temporarily Since my truth was defaced Ravaged and then replaced With no clues left at all To navigate the sprawl To know of where I was To know of where I was Lightning bolts in my head They surged on, incessant But the more I pedalled The less to be wrestled Through dense and beautiful And insurmountable But it would not restore And I couldn't restore Nothing could be restored But the easement came In the form of the terrain Colour spread again Blue remembered Freedom downhill came With the fall of the terrain Colour spread again Blue remembered Green and red— Freedom downhill came With the fall of the terrain Colour spread again Blue remembered Green and red regained