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What Can Be Read?

from Scratch by Jonathan Morrison

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War weary, work weary. A mixture of metaphors are present here. Make your own mind up as to the overall meaning.

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What Can Be Read?

What can be read in a single tear,
a dot in time, a spot of blood?
What can be read…?
What can be read…?

Keep the head down,
the earth is a friend.
Probably the only one in the end.
Hands to the head
when the bombs shake the ground.
Sensibly hiding, jump at every sound.

A streak down the face
from a single tear.
Realisation, curled up in fear.
Look for a way
out of this rot.
Time brings on the madness in this bloody spot.

What can be read in a single tear,
a dot in time, a spot of blood?
What can be read…?
What can be read…?

Have to get away
for the throat is tight.
Need to make a stand and face the light.
Rise with the sun,
everyone is there.
Penetrating faces that stonily stare.

Despite the covered eyes
a single tear comes.
Doesn’t even dry by the time of the guns.
A volley rings out,
the bloody spot grows.
Time is all done but for the spreading rose.

Much can be read in a single tear,
a dot in time, a spot of blood.
Much can be read…
Much can be read…
Much can be read in a single tear,
a dot in time, a spot of blood.
Much can be read…
Much can be read…

Lay the head down
the earth is a friend.
Probably the only one in the end.

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from Scratch, released December 3, 2019
words and music ©2019 Jonathan Morrison

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