Phoenix Falling - Maura O'Connell

Every day she walks down to river at noon

I will never be young anymore, she says

How bout you?

Are we the same or

Do you have one more

Reason to stay here

Chipping away at the tide?

She’s been wrestling with questions that offer no choice

Conversations that drum in the monotone of her voice

Oh why

Do I keep chipping away at

The darkness that fills every day with

No change in sight anywhere?

Phoenix falling the angels are calling me home

Children come running to

See the lady who stands on the bridge, will she jump

Or will she die

All alone in the night

Just the tears in her eyes and the dust on her clothes

Jane Doe

Say a prayer for the mothers who never return

Bless the days when it’s all you can do not to crash and burn

Oh why

Why, she says, Am I alone when

Multitudes crowd all around me

Sunshine and bright everywhere?

Phoenix falling the angels are calling me home

Children come running to

See the lady who stands on the bridge, will she jump

Or will she die

All alone in the night

Just the tears in her eyes and the dust on her clothes

Jane Doe

Phoenix falling the angels are calling me home

Children come running to

See the lady who stands on the bridge, will she jump

Or will she die

All alone in the night

Just the tears in her eyes and the dust on her clothes

Jane Doe