all other ways
you're just pretending
to end this
inhuman longing
and longer than
the longest days
and that which I
say, cannot be said
they fine me alive
but only inside
alone in my head
moving faster than it is
is harder than it seems
the words I want
the worlds i want
from other mouths
turn away ears
to a lonely marquee.

and I send the seeds of you
down the well of me

and long ago flowered
in my sunlight, forever

made into a crown
beneath it moonlit strands
and never fail

your vines grow my limbs
never to be pruned they
will be forever green

if this love is a jungle
may you guide my feet

if this love is an ocean
I pray your heart to
carry on to my waves

if this love turns into lines
make it a circle please

I know what it is to speak of
forever, I know what it is to be
in the puppet's sleeves

but in your eyes,
may I forget all of these.

i await invitation
to unwrap these wounds
so carefully chosen
permission to remove

and my mind screams itself
to a foolish mouth
finding every door closed
and to watch them all fall

the vice itself holds no victory
it offers no souvenirs
watching clocks that never move
the hours have no sympathy

you'll watch the willow branch
it mocks you as you are

until we find no more
old uses for new faces
we'll cast this die between us

this song is like
lighting up forever
like my bad posture
it curves over the skin