Cooma - Keegan Joyce

Socks on, shoes off

Door closed, unlocked

Waiting on the breeze

Build in you there

A passion and no care

Listening for the leaves

And I’m trying to discover what a silence is

Inaudible, but held

Finding emptiness here in Cooma’s air

An emptiness I need

White water on the river, fishing for brown trout

Never caught one, but I’m told they’re here, no doubt

Light up on the hillside, company at night

In Cooma, waiting, waiting for loneliness

Amber flames to ember

Red wine, so I remember

As soundly as they sleep

Hard floors under head

No comfort for a bed

I can hear me breathe

And I’m trying to discover what a silence is

Inaudible, but held

Finding emptiness here in Cooma’s air

An emptiness I need

White water on the river, fishing for brown trout

Never caught one, but I’m told they’re here, no doubt

Light up on the hillside, company at night

In Cooma, waiting, waiting for loneliness