In case you are damaged too

for M

In case you are damaged too
I alone shall think of you
The world waves its solemn hand
at all alike both small and grand

Just in case you are damaged too
think not of me but only you
these remain the naked facts
the way the world has paid us back

In case you come from troubled womb
where the world appears to you a tomb
think of me in sympathy
for you and I become a 'we'

Go forth then from this circling gloom
all alone in your living room
As a blind man who by Christ can see
the lightning flash from eternity