GIRL ON A SWING

Posing in barefoot for astronaut postcards
Defying gravity for all the joy that it brings
Girl on a swing
Pendulum motion that time doesn't know of
At the controls of a somewhere tomorrow machine
Girl on a swing

I knew the artist before she conquered the world
By painting the girl

Girl on a swing

Twelve summers in, it was easy from practise
Days that invited us to go off imagining
Girl on a swing
Feet on the ground now and autograph famous
Time has been kind and the world is about all good things
Girl on a swing
Colours will fall and a canvas might catch them
Aquarelle memory, washes of what might have been
Girl on a swing

I knew the artist before she conquered the world
By painting the girl

Girl on a swing

Colours will fall and a canvas might catch them
Aquarelle memory, washes of what might have been
Girl on a swing
So she omitted as much as invented
Look through a waterfall and you will still see something
Girl on a swing

I knew the artist before she conquered the world
By painting the girl

©2009 John Newlands