The Wigmaker's Widow

Stars twist

Light's last confetti on her face

And raindrops kiss

The darkened end of Goodbye Lane

Footsteps in the distance fall

On the streets that echo love's-lost faded screams

But you see

It means there's more of you for me

To claw and grab, I grind with small white teeth

The good it does to see your face in tears

To wipe away with fluttering alarm

Or welcome back with innocent commands

The broadest shoulder falls to silent charms

The violent man a puppet without arms

Scowl now

Your lips turn upwards at the corners now and then

While violins with broken strings

Play lullabies

You crack and crumble like a paper doll and drift away

But you see

It means there's more of you for me

To claw and grab, I grind with small white teeth

The good it does to see your face in tears

To wipe away with fluttering alarm

Or welcome back with innocent commands

The broadest shoulder falls to silent charms

The violent man a puppet without arms

So you see

It means there's more of you for me

To claw and grab, I grind with small white teeth

The good it does to see your face in tears

To wipe away with fluttering alarm

Or welcome back with innocent

Commands

(raindrops kiss on)

The broadest shoulder falls to

(darkened footsteps)

Silent charms

(raindrops kiss)

The violent man a puppet without

(on darkened footsteps)

Arms

(raindrops kiss on darkened)

Oh you see

(footsteps, raindrops kiss on)

It means there's more of you for me

(darkened footsteps, raindrops kiss on)

The broadest shoulder falls to silent charms

(darkened footsteps, raindrops kiss on)

The violent man a puppet without arms

(darkened footsteps)