Robert Edgar 

I barely see the door I came in
Can’t understand this compromise

My secrets all have just gone viral
All I can do is rub my eyes.

How many ears have heard our stammers
How many nightmares do we dream?
How many throats release their breathing
Into this vacuum in between?

I will forget you
Though I’m desperate to reveal
These fitful shadows that surround us
Christ we all seem so unreal

The kid who spoke to me so quietly
He’ll raise the stakes I heard him say
Though he professes worldly wisdom 
He seems provincial all the way.

I will forget you
Though now this day is cast in rhyme
It’s not your truth that I am after
And all your words just waste our time.

Where is the soldier who carries me to safety?
Which is the mirror that proves that I exist?
Where is the thief who leaches all my pain?
Who is the lover to sanction all my lies?
Where is the patriot to die for me?

Bubbles escaping from a diving bell
My thoughts emerging incomplete…
You feel the trembling of our bodies
I blame our pain upon the weak.

I will forget you
Though we hold our hands today
Breugal’s blind trudge on in spirals
Those who stumble sink away.