Black Lilies

She was strange but never loud

Kept her eyes down in a crowd

Spoke in pauses, thin and slow

Like she heard what we don't know

On a night of early fall

When the frost climbed up the wall

She said someone called her name

No one there, but still he came

They said, "It's just your loneliness

An echo in your head."

But she swore she felt his fingers

Trace the places fear had fled

She was strange but never loud

Kept her eyes down in a crowd

Spoke in pauses, thin and slow

Like she heard what we don't know

On a night of early fall

When the frost climbed up the wall

She said someone called her name

No one there, but still he came

They said

They said

They said

She said a ghost lay by her side

Cool as silver rain

Whispered secrets in the dark

That burned without a flame

They laughed and shut the story down

Down, down, down

Down, down, down