Shallow Grave

        Digging my own shallow grave
        Digging a grave alone
        Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, digging
        On my own

There’s nothing left to save
When sex replaces love
It places ev’ry fall from grace
A smile falls from a face
Smiles and tearstains
Leave their trace

        Digging my own shallow grave
        Digging a grave alone
        Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, digging
        On my own

A woman smiles, a woman hurts
She can’t trust love, it’s alike
The English weather, ever
Changeable, never constant

Crowding vowels
And dropping consonants
Partisan a verb…

The doing of the rain
The killing of the pain
The taking of the shame…

        (The doing of the rain)
        Digging a grave alone
        Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, digging
        On my own

There’s nothing left to save
When sex replaces love
It places ev’ry fall from grace
A smile falls from a face
Smiles and tearstains
Leave their trace

Smiles and tearstains on a face
Leave their trace…

        Digging my own shallow grave
        Digging a grave alone
        Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, digging
        On my own…


© Martin Slidel 2018




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