A Minute An Hour Is A Distance Poem by Mark Heathcote

A Minute An Hour Is A Distance



A minute an hour is a distance in any bodies head/heart
When they're alone with their own expiry date
Thinking sadly, towards, their own end, their own death.
Laying there on some long-forgotten shore
Just as some long-forgotten distant shadow
Newly approaches you up ahead.
Where purple-headed heather clouds, storm.
Like a thunder cloud gave over to its own last roll call.
Reaching down into me/you: Oh, when I fall
It's like the ghost of a shadow has come to call.
That lacerates, that cuts into us all
None of us can lean-on bear upright stand tall
When your love has been the one!
The one true insider influence to mortally wound you.
Who nailed you/your heart to a cross to pay what cost?
A minute an hour is a distance when it's your hearts own, roll call.
When, it's your love, your life that you've lost
When it's your love that is dead.
A minute an hour is a distance in any bodies head/heart
When, you've got to go on living alone, awaiting deaths roll call.
Oh, instead of just feeling free
Like a wave returning out to sea
An hour, a minute is a distance you just can't fathom.
Don't you believe me?
A minute an hour is a distance in your head
A minute an hour is a distance
A distance in any body's heart
A minute an hour is a distance
A second is a distance too late
When you've need of another last chance to pay your debts.

First written 24.2.2001 edited 27/01/2016

~Original~ song

A mile is a distance in my head24.2.2001

A mile is a distance in my head
When I'm alone death...
Like a distant shore
Where the heather clouds of a storm
Like a thunder cloud, call...
Reaching down
Into me
When I fall...
Like the ghost of a shadow
Cuts us all...
None of us
Stand tall...
When your love has been the one
True outsider to wound you
And nailed your hearts payload to the cross
A mile is a distance when it's your heart
When it's your love that you've lost
When it's your love that is dead
A mile is a distance in your head
When you've got to go on living
Instead of just falling free
Like a wave returning out to sea
A mile is a distance can't you see
Do you believe me
A mile is a distance in your head
A mile is a distance
A distance in my heart
A mile is a distance in your head
A mile is a distance
When you've need
Of turning another corner
When you know that your heart is dead
A mile is a distance in your head
A mile is a distance
A mile is a distance in my head.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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