Half-Life

hoteles BernaI fiddle with my patented personality
Albergo Espana Chiseled by the planets and the parents and formalities
And I cannot discern if the honing of my stone
Was a delicacy earned or a loss I cannot atone

I have sat ever still for the painter’s hard portraits
Two and a half years like a Dorian Gray
My shelf life has a half-life and I have been sitting pretty
On my slow decay

I blush easily when I dream a dream
Or when I try to hide the flutters on my heart’s big screen
I stayed patiently
Quietly conquering
Each flood of desire as it washed over me

I have sat ever still for the painter’s hard portraits
Two and a half years like a Dorian Gray
My shelf life has a half-life and I have been sitting pretty
On my slow decay

You’ve got that picture of me
A memoir from the fallen company
But I revel in the rubble
For sweet so sweet is the memory

I am making my way back down
Rothenburg cheap hotels As the odometer clicks back to zero zero oooo
I am parting sweetly with that hard crown
That hangs heavy on a head full of fear

I have sat ever still for the painter’s hard portraits
Two and a half years like a Dorian Gray
My shelf life has a half-life and I have been sitting pretty
On my slow decay

And etched in me are the finest lines
Carved by the weather of heart and mind
hotels in Cordoba By the glaciers of erasure my memory has been made wide

Daniela Gesundheit ©2003