Loyalty

Well you called me

Telephone ringing in the night

And you asked me if I was alright

Like an afterthought, an oversight

And I stood so surprised

Trying to hold on to my pride

So close I could hear your low sigh

I said I was fine, you said you were fine

There’s a loneliness, I don’t lose sight of it

Like a high distant satellite

One side in shadow, one in light

But I didn’t mind to be alone that night in a city I’d never seen

All these skyscrapers pooling on a prairie

Built high and tall, as though they all compete

Just to reach the darkness up above

That once here had been

Somewhere if there’s a beauty you had seen in me

That I wanted somehow to believe

Drift of sentiment and memory

That I could not have, I could not keep

No, it never did belong to me

It was only ever another thing I would carry

Still it held me, loyalty, to a feeling, to some glimpse

Of a love that was only ever a kind of distance that we could not cross

“Gather no moss”