When Another Midnight - Sarah Slean

When another midnight comes to rest

On the cheek of our sleeplessness

All crusaders will wake and dress

Pull their flags from their pillowcases

You could hear of Eden hold its breath

On this the anniversary of Wonder’s death

O ho an occasion what a terrible mess

Or a time for a new dress

How to live a noble life

In this the age of insanity

Where every prophet’s face is turnin' white

It’s the look the look of can it be?

It’s shock it’s horror it’s despair

It’s Socrates weeping in a wheelchair

Teacher drooling unaware

Where are my students?

Where o where?!

Poet to poet nun to nun

I’ve met a distance that I have to run

Man with madness must come undone

I’m going down a smoking gun

All the commuters will hear out words

And hide in garages like frightened birds

But you can’t stop the moaning of the Earth

And the midnight crackling of my nerve!

Just another midnight falling

Come out come out!

Angels come out!

It’s just the sound of another midnight falling

Come out come out at the end of the world!

It’s just the sound of another midnight falling

Come out come out the time is now!

It’s just the sound of another midnight falling

O another midnight!

' Sarah Slean