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Are you there - in the light?

Dancing shadows – none so bright

Memories of you captured on celluloid

Kept in boxes – the attic’s mind

The lamp’s flicker – the reels in turn

What keeps you here – the celluloid burns

While you’re sleeping

In the darkest nights above us all

The light starts your dancing

And your heartbeats by the reels will start

Dead by day – alight by night

I keep you sleeping when it’s too bright

But my memory fades with time

Distant pictures – merge to one

Keep you running – on and on

I cast your soul on celluloid

While you were sleeping

In your darkest nights beneath my hands

Alone I’m breathing

Since your voice has ceased so long ago

You are still dancing

By electric lights and my own hand

Buried beneath

And above you are alive on celluloid