Elsa

         words by Bob MacKenzie
         music by Ian Revell

There is a rustle in your name, like the
passing of the years; the sound of days
falling like leaves around you, inevitably
to leave a barren scarecrow in the wind
without a rustle.

There is already a look of scarecrow in
your eyes, a certain hollow in your face
and hunger in your mein that can only grow,
like Chaos, inward upon itself.

There is a beauty about you, but it is the
derelict fantasy of a long vacant mansion
or the prairie in November rather than
that of youth in search of life.

There is a rustle that follows you as you
move, carrying autumn from room to room
and filling every room with leaves until,
one day, you shall have shed so much of
yourself that none shall be left for the
present.

published: Generation '81, 1981

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