Tempered steel encapsulates the wraith,
Pressed plates embossed with message great
Handed down passing, left to those who wait
Activates the lesson lasting, after goes this state.

A long pause reflects the gravity at hand
A room without lights
In house of no consequence
Somewhere on the south of a city
Cast in plaster, forever mastered
Guessing after another and after

The yard outside that night, that week
Displayed beneath the neon palms
The phony bones of life exposed
An instant's distant wishing
The date of the incident lost
At all and if ever it happened at all

The Fall came and left us far away that year
A colder kind of coming home unknown
The text lay there in a drawer
Four of the following months
A break from truth that years later
Remembers mourning all at once.