Jonathan Beale- A Poem

Song

From those Elysian Fields

Run, run away

            From those Elysian Fields

Run, run away

            To your home that yields

To a corned cat in a dark alley

Next to the Egyptian Queen

Whose beauty is callous and obscene?

Be warned. Stay away. Do not dally

Do not dally with the cold blue night

Cast, cast the line across the sky

Come with and lay before we die

Take my hand before the flight

Run, run away

            From those Elysian Fields

Run, run away

            To your home that yields

Run, run away

            To your home that yields

                        Into the forest

                                    Into the night

                        The Jerusalem tree

                        That holds you to me

                                    Into this wonderful sight

If you can

            If you can

                        Can...Can…

                                    Be blest

                                                Be blest

Pausing in the evening

            Here between the wolf and the dog

Here between my passion and your absence

So what can become

The rolling under the moon

Among the wheat fields

I strode to break down your shields

That dawn your moon is too soon

And you

                        And you

                                    You have 

Become

                        Become

                                    Be—come—

                                                Be-------come-----

                                                                        One

                                                                                    One

                                                                                                One

Come back to Elysian

            Back to those fields

            Back to those fields

                        Back to Elysian

                                    Back, back

Pausing in the evening

            Here between the wolf and the dog

Here between my passion and your absence

Ba ba back ----------to Elysian

                                                Back to

                                                            Back to Elysian