An old song of mine with a re-edited video.
Just a simple video on my old iPhone from 2017 of my regular walk route.
It doesn't seem like much, maybe, but it was an important artistic step for me at the time - to just make something simple and creative with one of my songs. I was thrilled when the video timing lined up perfectly with the song plus the complementary poem I added at the end.
I hope you enjoy. Lyrics below.
Kay
Keep Me Close
I have never seen such light before;
I have never known such warmth.
I have always fought to find my home--
Never thought it'd find me first.
You have given me what I have lost
Through the carelessness of them:
All their broken deeds and lying love;
You have built me back again.
If I walk alone again tonight
I don't know where I will go--
Where these streets will wind, what feet will find,
If I'll lose me in the cold.
So keep me close
At your side
Never go;
I'll be fine, I'll be fine.
In the morning I will wake from sleep,
As the colours cover me;
No more black and white upon my skin--
No more ice inside my bones.
Quiet Love Heals
Quiet love heals
Many still-buried violences--
Pours in, just so, steady,
Awakening the silences:
Slowly, slowly caressing
The fine, thin delicate places of skin--
The darknesses that hide within the pitied spaces:
A vibrancy and lustre in the grey, wake of death;
The joyful repair,
The innocent, inquisitive eyes
Of a beloved.