a pulsing solar mirror
casting shadows in the dark
you glow when those below you
catch a chill and close their eyes
effulgent then depart

you split away and left us
now you stay just down the road
you're out there on your own 
but we still see you smiling
tethered in the cold

-chorus
always in the way
on the rare nights i go looking at the stars
brighter than the faint aurora 
so again i'm stuck looking at you

pulling on the ocean
letting go at noon
a canvas birds embroider
they etch the sand
you swallow up the dune

some will say they claim you
but they're struggling to breathe
everyone that makes their way to visit you
will turn around and leave

-chorus
...drowning out the milky way
guess i'm going to make my way back home

Tune of Lunar

Share with me his undeserving influence
And ask me to console your husband too
There’s a hundred ways that I
Could now display I sympathize 
But I don’t know what to do

He’s bored of letting strangers ride his animals 
His stables board your horses there for free
A kindness in his gentle hooks
Now he stands above with a wild look
He don’t appear stable to me

A heavy house with paint flecks on the furniture 
A poison dust you’d never dare to sweep
You’ve given half your savings to
A promise nothing more is due
When the project is complete 

He looked in to your windows seeing less of you
Than the family he advantaged of last week
A dismal reputation _
He don’t give out vacation_
His subordinates are meek

I passed him on my way back from the landfill
my tracks he'd wear down just like your resolve
underneath a hat of smoke 
and out of curly lips that spoke 
before he blocked your calls

He'll give your kids a list of disabilities 
some of them he's given to his own
a rash of infertility
a curse upon his dynasty
a tattered unfilled crown

Baustin Marquette