FISH EYE CURVE somewhere a child sits waiting counting all the cars passing by the wind hits the trees and the leaves fall around him tearing away from the sky leaves turn to rain, turn to snowflakes falling like his saved up nickels and dimes all that he knows is all he sees around him the bell in the schoolyard chimes Chorus then suddenly all of the distances and changes erase as if you never left this place or this face behind you all the secrets locked up tight in the pictures black and white the fish eyed curve of light will find you unwind you then bind you enshrine you define you somewhere a woman stands weeping hiding her young face from the cold she's wrapped in a scarf and an ancient woolen blanket wrapped in the loss that she feels growing old walking the halls through the twilight taking the red lantern she brings the moon holding fast and the stars spinning in the heavens the bell in the old church rings Chorus somewhere a young man is drowning holding his breath as he sinks nothing to fear but the fear of being nothing nothing but sadness he things walking these streets lost in daydreams the world moving fast on busy workday wheels when there's nothing to hold then there's nothing to surrender the bell in the tower peels Choruswords © 2000 Richard Isen