Another+old+man+gone*

media type="custom" key="27335738" Another old man gone Just another old man gone His ashes mixed up with the mud They help to grow the blood red rose That struggles from his sod Just another gone to God

Another old man gone Just another old man gone When I was young I thought him God His shoulders broad held up my world He was all I hoped I could become Just another come and gone

Another old man gone Just another old man gone Across his stone-cleared land he’d stroll Eyes lost in space, in vacant grace, At peace with all he saw A soldier settling from the war

Another old man gone Just another old man gone As I grew I felt his bitter scorn Some deep raw scar still scorched his heart And those closest to him burned He was a mystery we could not learn

Another old man gone Just another old man gone He was so deaf and all alone Until his own words were all he heard His thoughts all he came to know In his desert with no home

Another old man gone Just another old man gone He never learned the words for love And when I could finally read love in his deeds, How closed I had become I clenched tight and held my tongue

Another old man gone Just another old man gone He lay, his skin stretched on his bones And as he lay, so shrunk and grey, It was too late to right our wrongs And I saw that I’d cursed an effigy That I was afraid I could become I wept for him right there and then And now I weep within this song Just another old man gone

Another old man gone Just another old man gone He was no demon he was no god And in the end when he could ascend I prayed his peace was come And prayed he’d found his God Just another old man gone

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In the photos, always gazing into the distance - thinking unshared thoughts - no-one was allowed in