Shearwater - My Only Boy

My only boy, be not so blind.
Open your eyelids wide.
In through your mouth, breathe soft, light…

There are no words, no hands, no eyes,
that show where a door stands wide.
In through your mouth, breathe soft, light…

And your heart stands open,
when silence trickles down, bright,
and softly, slowly surrounds
your little ghost town

Set all the silver lamps alight
And open the windows wide.
(Come to me now, in soft light.)

Show every world in its separate light-
(A gull’s wing, a crow’s dark eye)
Where all the city’s foundlings lie

When your heart stands open,
and offered to the crowd, draw lines
around your chosen life.
And let it burn, bright –
over all the lovely faces

(In place of the sun, in place of the moon…)