Fight or Flight - Siv Jakobsen

I’ve got visions of us

Growing old, growing stuck

To the frame of the bed where we have laid to rest

We’ll grow hollow in that room

As our bodies stay, our minds are drifting fumes

They float from our bodies, from our bed, from our brains, to their grave

I see you clear in flight

You are an all consuming light

I feel it all with fright

It is a never ending fight or flight

To lose, to love, to leave, to stay

It is us until the end

I am certain, it is plain

But I am a poet, I breathe for the tension, the release

And it’ll push us to the edge

Make us fear imbalance on the ledge

‘Cause we are manipulators and gifted providers of guilt

I see you clear in flight

You are an all consuming light

I feel it all with fright

It is a never ending fight or flight

To lose, to love, to leave, to stay