South of Texas
We were here in your eyes
staring back into you
with a menacing gaze.
We were there in your mind
when we were children
and I was new,
yet still I did not forget.
We saw you born on the day of crying.
We looked through pane of glass at you
from a distance within yourself.
We were unable to discern
the child from the soul
or the man from the coffin,
so we packed you all together
in pail of night
and shipped you off to dreamland,
south of Texas.