Answer #141 - You get it ginger ale and beg it to stay

The tinted photo of my parents hangs in my hallway.  Color saturations of bright blue in the eyes and pink on the lips. Taken when color photography was everywhere, but painted black and white portraiture was stylish.

You can't know what will grab your attention until the the thing is swirling in the air, just out of reach.  So you stop what you're doing and write it down.

Or do you wrestle it to the ground?

Honey down a string

Sun on wheat against the Autumn hillside
just about a mile wide- about a mile a way
are tinted lips and a pale blue shadow
in a little photo
in a silver frame -
Lovers speak the untrue and promise someone I do
that someone never was you

Ginger ale left out on a walkway
probably been there all day- warm as morning tea
smooth and sweet like honey down a string, oh
that's all that I can think of
thick and sweet must be -
Lovers speak the untrue and someone hopes it will do
that someone never was you

In the muddy mile, in the rutted bend
maybe sit a while til the scarlet sky is blue again
and stars come out

Don't  you go carrying on so carelessly
when you are so close to me- when you are so near
cause someone somewhere's singing Autumn Leaves, oh
outside someone's window
darling, can you hear?
Lovers speak the untrue and someone hopes it will do
that someone never was you

glassy-eyed in the scarlet light
just like the photograph- not a trace of pride
Wishing on star

Someone's singing Autumn Leaves, oh
outside a window
darling, when they fall
smooth and sweet like honey down a string, oh
that's all that I can think of
when I miss you most of all - k. detor