Miss Templeton's 7000th Dream

She recognizes the voice on the phone
But she can’t recall his face
She hears knocking on her door at night
But he never leaves a trace
She’s had seven thousand nights with the very same scene
Repeated again and again in her dreams:
A muffled scream, and a broken fall
As the moonlight creeps in from down the end of the hall
It’s just the stars stooping down
To sing their goodbyes while a man with a briefcase
And hollowed out eyes speaks
Over and over again
Over and over again
Stranger things have happened in my time
Stranger things have happened in my time