a-leaking heart

I saw your face that wasn’t there 

Saw it hang in empty air  

As you walked away  

Strode into the gray

Your name bitter hung  

On my stricken tongue 

Burnt sick by hope  

Too broken to cope

So again I must learn 

You’ll never return 

You left long ago  

You had places to go!

From afar I heard you speak 

My poor heart went a-leak

Their Golden God

I once heard a story

Of long rotted glory

Perhaps it is true

Perhaps a fancy they drew

From a long lost age

With skin like gold

They locked him in a cage

For he musn't grow old

He was their god

They had to keep him chained

Oh so sadly he would nod

At the homage they paid

He never tried to run

When the temple collapsed

The simple song he sung

As forever elapsed

Their god must never leave

For someone must always grieve