Joseph

“I feel a pain behind my eyes

Thinking about our broken ties

I didn’t realise how far I was from you

I hope you never feel as sorry as I do

I hovered high above my world

I didn’t treasure my own girl

I should have been a father

I wasn’t any good to you

I hope you never feel as useless as I do

I extinguish fire with legal grace

At night I pray to save this holy face

I live for liturgy and the motions of the mass

I am sleepwalking to heaven via a first-class funeral”