Passage-Vienna Teng

[ti:passage] [ar:vienna teng] [al:257410] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.42]I died in a car crash [00:06.66]Two days ago was unrecognizable [00:12.84]When they pulled me from the gears [00:15.96]No one's fault no one's bottle [00:19.68]No one's teenage pride or throttle [00:23.41]Our innocence is all the worse for fears [00:27.77] [00:28.30]The other walked away alive [00:31.77]Arms wrapped now around his wife [00:35.96]My lover sits the silent eye [00:39.61]In a hurricane of warmth and word [00:43.24]My mother trembles with the sobs [00:47.07]Whose absence seems absurd [00:49.43] [00:50.17]My sister shouts to let her see [00:53.22]Through the cloud of crowd surrounding me [00:56.70]My colleagues call for silence in my name [01:02.78] [01:03.61]I died in a car crash three months ago [01:11.66]They burned me until i glowed [01:15.02]And crumbled to a fine gray sand [01:18.98]Now i am nothing everywhere [01:21.70]Several breaths of strangers' air [01:25.88]And all thoughts ever written in my hand [01:31.40]They plant my tree out in the yard [01:34.62]It grows but takes the winter hard [01:39.50]My lover holds a knife to wrist [01:42.92]Says tomorrow comes hold on a while [01:47.43]My mother tosses in the sheets [01:50.87]And dreams me holding my own child [01:55.02]My sister plays our homemade tapes [01:58.25]Laughs as tears run down her face [02:02.39]My office door now wears a different name [02:07.92] [02:09.20]I died in a car crash four years ago [02:17.54]My tree drinks melted snow [02:20.44]Just eight feet tall a pale and fragile thing [02:24.35]Bee stings beaches bright vacations [02:29.67]Sunburnt high-school graduations [02:33.40]A sparrow healing from a broken wing [02:37.11] [02:37.77]This year a glimpse of second chances [02:42.23]Tiny apples on my tree's branches [02:46.88] [02:48.25]My lover hears the open wind [02:52.09]And crawls blinking into the sun [02:56.21]My mother leafs through photographs [03:00.26]And thinks "yes she was a lovely one" [03:03.76]My sister can't decide her truth [03:06.93]Asks aloud what i might do [03:10.68]In a conference hall my brief efforts engraved [03:17.08] [03:17.77]A lifetime ago it seems [03:27.86] [03:28.66]A decade or two or three [03:31.61] [03:32.17]They've come out with a new design [03:36.36]Bars and bags front and behind [03:39.00]My fate now an impossibility [03:40.47]Safely packaged hurtling down [03:49.21]The highway hardly make a sound [03:54.12]My lover very much alive