The Orion Star

Questions Part II

Jump on your dark warhorse and trot past

Houses of ill-repute

Walls hold a lot to think about

Normally you'd go to the slammer for this

But today we'll give you a free pass

One minute you're here and the next you're costing

I'm the forgotten one

Everyone is missing sometimes

You're looking at the lost degradation

I'm the wasted one

You don't wanna be beautiful like me

Releasing at night, reckless harming

You call and say I'm silent

Cessation, let's talk about the cessation

One minute you're here and the next you're releasing

Off to see the world lacking at night

We are existing, let's talk about existing

Our love is like the dialback

Recklessly draining, harmlessly surrounding

You must think that I'm passing

I live my life as if I'm happy

But I'm not when you're missing

Our love is like the mourning

You're looking at the silent losses

Recklessly waiting, silently dying

Passing, let's talk about passing

You don't wanna be happy like me

I'm the lost one

So just stop your damaging

As we trot on this dark horse

Past these houses of ill-repute

The song Dark Horse

Lyrics by: Orion Bauwens

"So I have some questions for you," I say.

"Me?" Amy looks surprised, hand to her chest.

I chuckle. "Well of course. I don't know you."

"Okay go ahead."

"Did you like my music before or after our mom told you who I was?"

"Before."

I raise my right eyebrow.

"Seriously."

I cross my arms.

"Seriously Orion! The first time she told me I thought she was pulling my leg because she knew how much I liked your band."

I smile a little. I'm still not sure if I believe her. As if she read my mind, she points to the closed door. "You can go ask her--"

I laugh and hold up my hands. "No need, I believe you."

There's a few moments of awkward silence. Then I speak.

"So, how all did that go down? I mean, you guys finding out about me."

"Mom was always super up front with the fact she had another son," she says. "When we were little she just said that you lived far away and we might never meet you. Then as we grew up she gave us little bits of the story here and there."