East Enders Wives - mewithoutYou

We met by chance on the row riverside

Our salt fire danced as our tea leaves dried

She hatched our plans in the atmospheric tide

Said, «Let's give up, sacrifice next lent»

(Well that joke’s long since been spent)

So as the fool on the bagpipes played

We kept cool in the parasol shade

Your thumb on my page at my tender age

East enders wives

Then hidden in the boxthorn vine

We grew old as the foxtail pine

Sheep in the fold, gilding our gold

Sipping our milk and water lives

She packed our bags some arbitrary time

Then waved like a flag from the White Star Line

Unmoored, unwell, though I seldom elegize

We’ve both been untrue, but I’m still counting on you

Like an invisible rosary

And as the past and all plans are undone

Slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun

Bridges and boats, burning them both

Burned up the sky

Wires sang as the black birds fell

Sorrow rang like a churchyard bell

And asked the trees, smoke for the bees

All our dads died