When everyone you thought you knew
Deserts your fight, I’ll go with you
You’re facing down a dark hall
I’ll grab my light and go with you…
~*~
you kicked up reckless dusk,
and for a moment, time was yours.
i sat on the kerb and wept,
lost in the haze of fog and music,
watching the years go by with
nothing more than flammable illusions
cutting open the stars because you didn’t bleed,
waking up with dead skies because i couldn’t love—
letting the alarms go off hour after hour
but never letting the nightmare end, melting
away into paranoia and humiliation,
red lips a soundless “darling, i’m fucking cold.”
ignorant eyes couldn’t see the last of us
until it’s held at speculated gunpoint…
do you have to cross the start of the horizon
before they could see that you’ve died?
do i have to cross two lines off my hand
before i could ever try to live?
~*~
And go with you, I’ll go with you
I’ll go with you, I’ll go with you, yeah
Stay with me, no, you don’t need to run
Stay with me, my blood, you don’t need to run…
A Lost Painting