The Low Light Before Dawn

from Tomorrow I Will Take a Knife to Your Confidence by Anna Flyaway

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I waited all night for you
hands taut like tightropes,
feet anchored to the floor
and afraid to look away
as though a moments rest would lose you

Student by student marched by
like a parade of ghosts,
as they let cold air slip in with every opened door

It was as if their spirits were whisked away into an afterlife
or a secret place I couldn't go

I played it out in my head
(what I would say to you if you came)
as old, florescent lights flickered above me
and a TV played without sound

Hours passed hours
as the stream of traffic went dry

I did not know now who was the ghost

A couple staggered in
drunk and unaware that I was there,
still bathing under dying florescent lights

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from Tomorrow I Will Take a Knife to Your Confidence, released November 22, 2019

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