Are You Alright?

…are you alright?
are you sleeping through the night?
do you have someone to hold you tight?
do you have someone to hand out with?
do you have someone to hug and kiss you?
hug and kiss you…hug and kiss you…
are you alright?

I’m sitting in my quieter place…the place that nobody knows because I won’t let them…and I’m thinking about you. I’m thinking about the us that we used to be. Lucinda is singing the soundtrack and I’m letting my thoughts dance in the rose-colored light that permeates and caresses the memory fields where we, still and always, linger happily.

I’m in my quieter place…and I’m smiling warmly, nostalgically, only the tiniest bit ruefully as I savor and wallow in and rewrite the dances we did back when we were a viable us.

We ended badly…we ended as well as could be hoped…we ended in a perfect and proper measure of time…we drifted apart in clouds of acrimony...we drifted apart in the benign mist of unintentional neglect.

Whatever…whatever…whatever…the past is past and I’m in my quieter place and I’m happily thinking about you and imagining, with some hubris, that sometimes…every once in a bright blue moon…you’re thinking about me thusly as well.

Lucinda asks the question…are you alright?...and I nod wistfully, only the tiniest bit ruefully, and pray that it is so.

“Are You Alright?”
words and music by Lucinda Williams
©2007 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp./Lucy Jones Music

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