dark night on a long road
220 minutes still to go
spacing out time on odometer
with all our stories running through my head
if we stretched out all the spaces
we had nothing much to say
we’d be further than it seems right now
we’d still not be ok
we’re farther than we started
we’re still more than far away
if i opened up the wreckage of this life
you’d see sparks fly from my insides
and the flames burn higher for the silence
my spark wants you to stay, for the road home
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you
take
me
piece
at
a
time
with
no
patience
for
my
spirit
weak
tired.
you
take
me
apart.
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oh my dear sad heart
on far shore you proclaim
the strength of days the hope
of past mistakes restored i
am only ever waiting on a
star to fall from
outer reaches of the
dark, fragrant spaces.
oh the dearest, the best
save all the letters and
re-scatter them, make new
beds we lie in every Saturday
and new songs rewritten
in each small perfection
a confection of the melancholy
perfect symphony of catastrophe.
laid upon disaster oh the
vanishes of deep blue skies
and conflicting pinstripes call
nothing left on wasting time
floating on the current of the
day with light accompanying
you to heaven with a violent
twist, an aching kiss.