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