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Arrival
Arrival, I hear you coming so arrive
Footfalls clap to the earth
Echo through my head
Clapping like an audience demeaning interest
Of near-sighted hearing of disapproval
Of arrival
Of everyone you are to me
That everyone is you
For you are everyone to me
You are my earth that slips through my skinny fingers
The giggling music vibrating through
The air, as it whistles a tune as it works
You are my clouds
That stoop their eyes down to my level
To show me left or right
The devil and angel arguing on my shoulders
To blow out like weeping candles
Buzzing through my alarm clock head
The train whistled a cheery work tune
When you left me my vague old hankerchief
Sitting nervously in my wallet
The train whistles on again, to pass along the work
When you arrive again
To claim my heart again
Lost and found rebounds like rubber bands
Roaring through the air, Never glancing left or right
Just hit a target and we're done
Oh, arrival, come sweep me off my feet
Come sweep me off my floor
Conversing with dust bunnies
Conversing with my periods of gloom
Arrival don't be late
Good bye I said to you
Well, hello I say again
