Transience

Transience

Cut throught the country, speed throught
the dark
A child in a train, tristessa departs
It's only the start

Filigree circles round her young wrist
Her mother is frowning at something
she misses
She fixes her hair

At the failing of the day she heard her
father always say. "Remember, it's only
the start"

When she drifted off to sleep she had the
whole world at her feet
Because it's only the start

Before they fell away it seemmed to matter
all the same
But it was only the start
It's only the start