Sometimes you come back to me as a seagull
Overflowing and intrusive
Leaving your scent
Thoughts of bees and suffocating
Sadness is a tree, lambent in my wistful hands
I ask a stranger to light my cigarette
When the bartender won't serve me anymore
He says I'm drunk and I don't know how I'm going to get home
But I don't care
The traffic has stopped and I'm basking in the silence
The silence of the saddest night
The silence of the moon
Thinking about the last time I saw you
I come back to make sure, I never really closed the door
Waking up early for my morning coffee
Just to hear the birds, to see the fog make its way
Discreetly we love, the blue sky, the appointment with death
Your hands draped over my body
Sometimes I think of myself like a horse in a race
But I'm going too fast, living too fast, too dangerous
I get drunk and pass out like a drunk
And wake up at the strangest times, when the ghosts are talking
When it's just me and the moon
Sometimes I walk the streets in the quiet of the night
And I wonder why I can never perfect loving you
My neurotic, twisted fantasy
A painting with the perfect background
A romantic man
What is life with no meaning when the pain is insurmountable
When I'm insatiable and sloppy with desire?
I can't stand the bad days, the bad dreams, the sleepless nights
The shadows and disconsolate afternoons
I'm tired, I'm bored
I loved you more than the stars
And I can't begin to imagine how you hung there all night
Drained with no sunbeams, no one to talk to
Cold and lifeless
I loved you more than I could ever say
But you left me colder than the moonlight.
- Author: Jordan Cash (Pseudonym) ( Offline)
- Published: October 28th, 2022 16:03
- Category: Unclassified
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