A Picture Of Sorrow

She's set in stone and she's all alone,
She's watching the world go by,
I wonder why the face she cries never sheds a tear,
Arise dear one, arise with with the sun.

In a silent night when her eyes are bright,
Under a crescent shine she smiles,
Somehow it seems she's caught in a dream that doesn't
know how to end.
So arise dear one, arise with the sun.

Chorus
She's framed by a window,
In a picture of sorrow,
There's a growing shadow,
Climbing into tomorrow.

When she walks and when she talks,
A wind comes and whisks her away,
The leaves will fall and tell the more,
Of the fallen dreams today,
So arise dear one, arise with the sun.

There's a soft eyed girl who dances and twirls,
She's dressed in a world of gray,
While the world looks on - they're amused by her song,
And then they quickly turn away,
The world turns away, the world turns away.

Chorus
She's framed by a window,
A picture of sorrow,
There's a growing shadow,
Climbing into tomorrow.
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Posted: Dec 2009
About this poem:
I use to live around the corner from the red light district in
St Kilda, an inner suburb of Melbourne. This is a song about one particular working girl, who I would often see talking to herself, twirling and dancing around as if in a dream. Other times it would be in a catatonic state as if she cast were cast in stone.

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Comments (1)

jazzy75
huffnpuff - i enjoyed your poem/song and the emotions it brought to the surface. thank you.teddybear
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