Here Before This Tide

I watched as they rolled you across the floor I listened to the entire roar of anger, flood of tears Before me after you And sat in silence in front of the crowd, the audience of doubt And simply melted into myself, melted into me not to feel pain Above this earth and bone I lifted myself to watch They whispered in white about this love, this life, this man, this wife Watching won't be good enough anymore when bellies grumble Little hand extend from heaven for loaves of bread Keeping crying he isn't here anymore Keep watching and waiting he is not coming back There he goes across this bright floor shadows, shadows of his soul arise They need you now without that doubt chained to him across that floor Why cry, why wonder, why wait she will push him now Before his new crowd, before his new life, before....... Nothing nothing Remains of him But silence as I sit here watching time stand still as my children play with memories of you inside their growling bellies