I skim my soul

 

LISTEN TO - ASCOLTA

What else to say  if anybody is now praying  

for the coming back of spring  today 

It’s time to erase all my past sad mistakes 

to reckon with a new way I claim   

I skim my soul before it shrivels in the hope 

before marreding all my words to call 

I solemnize  this passage from the night 

into a new bright slide  of life   

Springtime is a part of me 

a sort of old sovereignty 

it suddenly can change my dreams 

and make them clear 

Springtime can remember me  

what I am and what I’ve been 

while I’m trying to bedim 

all my sins   

In early morning I hear birds chirping 

and darkness unwieldy decreases  

I have to outwit  before the time can win 

the best trickster is  its tick    

But how to become cunning when you are 

only a poisoned heart with two arms 

The answer is right into the new spring 

that comes back always draughty  

Springtime is a part of me 

a sort of old sovereignty 

it suddenly can change my dreams 

and make them clear 

Springtime can remember me  

what I am and what I’ve been 

while I’m trying to bedim 

all my sins

23^rd March 2021