My phantom brother came to me
His backlit face was hard to see
I couldn´t move, I couldn´t scream
You can´t un-hear Beethoven´s 5th
This human heart´s an aggregate

Competing feelings so disparate and strange

Life´s a solitary song
No one to clap or sing along
It sounds so sweet and then it´s gone
So suddenly
My aging mother steeled herself
Against the gravity she felt
Braced for another fainting spell
Fell in her mind through a trap door
We picked her up off of the floor
When she came to her throat was sore and she spoke

Life´s a game of solitaire
Amusement rides at county fairs
The Tilt-A-Whirl of our despair
Ends suddenly

Where´d it go?

Life´s a lonely love affair
Kaleidoscope beyond compare
It vanishes into thin air
So suddenly