Kitchen Table

from Here Now by Isobel Knight

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We sit around the kitchen table
Like everything’s fine as if every timeline
Leads us to this moment
As if anything’s promised at all

But still, the question hangs in the air
What if one thing had gone slightly different in there?
My Dad put it succinctly;
This would have been a very different evening for our family.

I can still hear the back windows shatter
Still feel everything that matters
Racing round my head
We don’t scream, we look at one another instead
I reach across the car to you and look you in the eye
And both of us are wondering
Is this how we die?

I’ll probably forget how the glass sparkled that day
How it glittered in piles all over the highway
As the safety bubble I didn’t realise I had
Was shattered once again
I don’t think I’ll forget
How time seemed to freeze as the car spun a hundred and eighty degrees
And we lay there for ten seconds
Just glad to be and breathe

And sit around the kitchen table
As I hope to do again, as many times as I’m able
Don’t take them from me Lord, I know I couldn’t bear it
Feeling so blessed to sit round this table and share it with you

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from Here Now, released August 6, 2021

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Isobel Knight Sydney, Australia

Heart-on-sleeve alt-folk. Isobel wields razor-sharp lyrics and voice that ranges from gentle storytelling to soulful smoothness. Her sophomore album "Here Now" came out in 2021, debuting at number 5 on the independent album charts.

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