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Paper Thin Lines

from Songs From Paper Thin Lines by Simon Flory

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There's a long paper thin line that stretches from here to there, through time and space and where I've been, what only I have seen.

I've touched it, felt the weightless moments, now heavy with perspective.

I don't see it straying through the hard years, tattered by violence, or cut short by loss, it's just right here with me.

I can pull on it when I want to see you again, because you were there with me where you will always be. You walked with me in glowing fields of golden light at sunset, you lifted me up with tender hands, you showed your face, a face I can still see if I try.

Why do I remain blissfully ignorant to this line, this gift I can unwrap and find new surprises? Passing days and weeks I now call moments are wrapped neatly in flashes of light held down by my own weak will, but oh how I miss you.

Sometimes when I’m alone and quiet the train comes around the final bend, first I hear it but only see the two parallel tracks disappear into the hardwoods, watch the pennies dance on them as you get closer, see the smoke plume push the wheels that will scream and crush the one cent souvenirs warm and flat and bring you home.

Today I found you in a postcard from a junk store; I found you in a fossil set in stone by a river; I found you in a smile from a stranger at the post office; I found you in a call from a friend who’s feeling the heavy weight of this world close in around them; I found you in the struggles of folks fleeing violence and oppression to make a better life, one you gave me; I found you in my anger towards those who oppose progress and I found you in my patient response of love.

There's a long paper thin line that stretches from here to there, through time and space and where I've been, what only I have seen.

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from Songs From Paper Thin Lines, released February 29, 2020

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Simon Flory Fort Worth, Texas

It takes a perceptive ear to translate icons of a mythical “Americana” into the daily textures of real human lives, and Flory does it with the sincerity of early country music. His compositions are as much short-story sketches as they are songs, each populated – like the locales that inspire them – with those among us who have few choices. ... more

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