It's a Dark Night
hot air hangs like a dead man
from a white oak tree
people sitting on porches
thinking how things used to be
dark night
dark night
the neighborhood was changing
strangers moving in
a new boy fell for a local girl
when she made eyes at him
she was young and pretty
no stranger to other men
but doors were being locked at night
old lines were drawn again
I thought things like that
didn't matter anymore
I thought all the blood
had been shed long ago
from a white oak tree
people sitting on porches
thinking how things used to be
dark night
dark night
the neighborhood was changing
strangers moving in
a new boy fell for a local girl
when she made eyes at him
she was young and pretty
no stranger to other men
but doors were being locked at night
old lines were drawn again
I thought things like that
didn't matter anymore
I thought all the blood
had been shed long ago
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Re: spam
Date: 2012-07-10 03:46 am (UTC)[He pauses, and wipes away some blood on his face distractedly. When he brings his hand from his face, the cut and the blood are gone.]
Six degrees of separation? In this way, the whole universe is your family.
And if it had been your brother, being attacked? What then? Maybe that was somebody's sister, who would have needed you to protect theirs on their behalf.