Oh Friend!

from Blue & Green by Aidan Simpson

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Oh friend,
take your tears from your golden head no longer.
On a thread I am coming to lay with you again.
See I swing slow to bring you the swaying of the ocean and the wind.
Though I left in some twilight with the rust of life about me,
though I tried to surrender to the storm and to the sun,
I was told by the ravens in the bloody flowers of midnight
to return.

Oh friend,
stand and sigh at my empty bed no longer.
Be it said - I am coming to make it up again.
See I bring for to soothe you the whispers of the glade and of the glen.
Though I left in some half light with the weight of stars upon me,
though on hard peaks I stumbled, in wild fires I did burn,
I was washed in the waters of a million merry fountains
to return.

Oh friend,
read your prayers to your anxious dead no longer.
In your dread, I am coming to quiet them again.
See I sing for to teach you the wisdom of the robin and the wren.
Though I leapt at some false light in my coat of smooth vermillion,
though three voices I swallowed, seven secrets I did learn,
I have found always sweeter the one at home who bids me
to return.

Oh friend!
Oh friend!
Oh friend!

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from Blue & Green, released February 1, 2023

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