Now The Night Poem by jim hogg

And even now tomorrow looks
As tempting as it ever did
I never really took the tour
Just found my way here bit by bit

There was a time without much threat
When all the colours turned to grey
‘Til suddenly I saw the edge
And once or twice I was afraid


It changes almost everything
The seagulls calling on the cliffs
The songs we always meant to sing
The wasted days, the only ifs:

A girl with dark eyes in the crowd
We never made the time to try
We weren't brave, we weren't loud
But I still think of her sometimes


As mystery weaves all the roads
So all the rivers merge some day
And all our mazes, all our loads
They lead us back the way we came

And suddenly in no man's land
You realise the game is lost
And yet there's beauty right at hand
But only if we know the cost


The future brings the here and now
But I could never make it last
Obsessed with what was coming down
The next instalment of the past

The more we learn about this life
The less it seems we really know
And when we turn the lights up bright
The more the shadows seem to grow

(chorus)

and now the night comes circling round
A bullet at its dreaming heart
There's no room left on hallowed ground
There's just the shelter of your arms


2009 (song)