Like you always will

Like You Always Will, Remembering my Eighteenth Year 

Return tonight like you always will

Fellowships of a kind,

Eighteen years that bind

A girl into late womanhood

Wed the heart and mind.

No, I'm not blind, I see 

Where this is going

I know we're both

One of a kind.

And it never ends,

Like it always will, when 

The heart can't heal the mind.

Eighteenth year, rain leaves 

Behind some kind puddles

And some tawdry trash

Littered lots and empty thoughts.

The anniversaries of angels

With clipped wings.

I'm going dark side on you

Fair Adelaide no more,

Spruce up your magic wand

And summon me anew.

I have nothing left to give

I have nothing to forgive

Annihilate me, I'll self-destruct

It's all the same to me.

My children perhaps of a lesser

God

But human beings, they can be,

Angels embodied nigh, I trust 

They'll find their own kind.

When eighteen, I pray for them,

Fighters be, confidently keep counsel,

Keep it together, let them be. 

Don't be left stranded at crossroads

Branded by faux destiny.

Return to me again, so,

Like you always will,

Sweet melancholy music

You hurt me still.

© Amrita Valan 2017