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On the Sand

from Cat Glasses by Dolores Dagenais

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On The Sand

July is hanging hot
over this town of mine again
It wrings the perspiration from my hand
The ocean is no refuge it’s at low tide again
Starfish tokens on the sand

On the sand
You said you’d love me for all time
You traced a heart around your name and mine
On the sand
Where only fools and lovers stand
Building their foundations in the tide
On the sand

You had written our love story
on this ever changing shore
And watched the waves devour
every word and punctuation
The ocean is no critic and it hungrily took more
Until you could not remember what you carefully had scrawled there

On the sand
You told me you would never leave
You claimed to be as constant as the sea
On the sand
You asked me to believe
That castles built on air can sometimes stand
On the sand

The tide is coming in now
Like velvet tongue upon my skin
The night is drawing curtains
And the sun is gone to slumbering
The ocean’s disappointed and throws driftwood at my feet
The land it was her lover
In that narrow place they’d meet

On the sand
Until he was lost beneath her leagues
Dissolving into inconsistency
On the sand
Where you begged me to be free
Saying time had eroded every plan
On the sand

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from Cat Glasses, released February 15, 2012

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