Tilt-A-Whirl - Bright Eyes

My phantom brother came to me

His backlit face was hard to see

I couldn’t move, I couldn’t scream

You can’t un-hear Beethoven’s 5th

This human heart’s an aggregate

Competing feelings so disparate

And strange

Life’s a solitary song

No one to clap or sing along

It sounds so sweet and then it’s gone

So suddenly

My aging mother steeled herself

Against the gravity she felt

Braced for another fainting spell

Fell in her mind through a trap door

We picked her up off of the floor

When she came to her throat was sore

And she spoke

Life’s a game of solitaire

Amusement rides at county fairs

The Tilt-A-Whirl of our despair

Ends suddenly

Where’d it go?

Life’s a lonely love affair

Kaleidoscope beyond compare

It vanishes into thin air

So suddenly