cool cats warm pizza
in-alley dining tonight
covid dinner out

you envy me for my resilience,

but you forget
the way I break harder than needed.

if you'll have me
i will bleed as an open sore

i will do my best to carry you
if you'll have me

i do not know all of you yet
but i want to

if you'll have me.

i hope i do not fail, for my sake and for yours.

i tell myself you're nothing that can be taken.
i have not made you up.
but i will pick you up
with my heavy, heavy arms,
and carry you,
as far as you'll have me.

It’s a constant drum.
Right behind the sternum,
Well maybe a little too my left.

Have you ever tried to explain your hurt?
It’s like you’re climbing a mountain,
He is a mountain.

And if the moon hides behind the cloud
Leaving us cold and almost empty
The stars and the ocean's sound
Would bring us back to serenity

I feel like a bird in the wide, blue sky.
An eagle soaring in the wind,
a koel singing melody,
a crow tired by insults,
a dancing peacock insecure,
a penguin broke,
a parrot pretending,
a chicken distressed,
a vulture scavenging,
a mynah invading,
an owl leading,
an ostrich jealous
and an airplane disarming.