Widow's Wall

It won't matter, when it's over

but ending, its everything

Shall we gaze into the sky

And watch the stars expire

Or is it just our eyes?

Shall we quarrel and conspire

and in our cups we'll raise

our knuckles to the sun

and curse the sea

Shall we strut about inside

And haggle for the dearest nest

the highest bough?

it won't matter, when it's over

but ending, its everything

Las the widows to the mast

and hope our craft will last

this broken mirror sea

and feel the vastness of the swells

that crash against a wall so high and wide

it's barely there at all

And helpless watch the storm

Foaming forms of locust swarms

against the mirror sky

Swarming - an insect storm

A million paper wings that whisper "fall"

Scrawled all in blood across the sky

The writing on the wall - the widow's wall