An Atlas to Follow

Third piece from my Wild Sweet Orange series. This is for the song An Atlas to Follow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNoyt…

“I can’t pretend now that you’re alive.
I know I’m dancing with the dead tonight.
Heaving bodies in the front yard lights,
They’re easing off the glory of the truth denied.

This little light of mine,
Shine bright and blind the reaper’s eyes.
Hear you stomping on the tops of pines.
We rest as death lays on his knife.”