EMILY & CHARLOTTE

This moorland isolation
Sleeping centuries surround
You can feel the Earth rotating
As the core beats out aloud
Cumulous and cirrus
They float above my head
As I recall the bitterness
Of everything she said

My heart is somehow warm here
As if Emily and Charlotte
Are by my side, by my side
Maybe I'm confronting something
Challenging my past
Personified, reconciled

I'm offended by my left hand
In my right handed hell
And I'm reminded of the Heartland
Reading Curer Bell
Ancient words that cannot harm you
As they sleep beneath their tomb
A crystallised cocoon

My heart is somehow warm here
As if Emily and Charlotte
Are by my side, by my side
Maybe I'm confronting something
Challenging my past
Personified, reconciled

A hollow empty room
Another makeshift womb
A moth's erratic flight
Under thirty watts of light
In my final degradation
Can atonement still begin?
A last chance for salvation
As the walls start closing in

My heart is somehow warm here
As if Emily and Charlotte
Are by my side, by my side
Maybe I'm confronting something
Challenging my past
Personified, reconciled