EMPTY FEARS

By Brian Lee

Oh its only an empty coat on a

hanger

That sways in a draught

(sway - move slowly from side to side

(draught a flow of cool air in a room

Like a man who depends on only

one thing
(depends on relies on

The something inside, Thats

holding him up
(hold him up

Waiting for friends he writes to,

But no ones replied.
-> The persona is expecting his
friends replied letters.

Whats that? Whispering,

(whispering make a soft, quiet
sound

where the fence round the lot

Sags like a fading hope

(sags to bend down in the
middle

The gate just here twists

(twists bend or turn into a
particular shape

On its hinge like a birds broken

wing

Hinge

And shrieks as you look, and see:

(shrieks scream )

Nothing, where all the shops used

to be,
People coming and going where
now they are not

Oh its only the breeze,

(breeze light wind

Thats fretting itself

(fretting making ones to be
worried
over sth)

Amongst the stiff thistles

Amongst = amidst
Stiff firm and difficult to bend

Upright
All winter
Dead
But not gone

But if it is only these things,

What blows through me

(what blows through your mind)
= your own wild imagination