Beer for breakfast
Liquor for lunch
Drunk by dinner
Out by 1

Kissing your door knobs
Trying to find your light switch
When I am with you I am home
As soon as I come in you strip off all my clothes
And let me know I am welcome here
When I am with you I am an unlocked door
Anything that is mine is yours
The currents
the drapes
The window into a past from which I try to escape
When we step into the shower
And wash the world from each others backs
I want you to be the only thing that takes their place
We lay in bed and hum like microwaves
Till ceiling fan finally falls asleep

the jacket you left here still smells like cigarettes,
yet i'm wearing it because it makes me feel like i'm not alone

i am here
You are there
Why are we apart

Tired of crying
tired of eating
but mostly my heart
is tired of beating

why do i love the suffering you put me through

I wish that
he could see
that she is tired
of fighting the tide.

I wish that
he could see
that she is barely
afloat anymore.

I wish that
he had saved
her from drowning
but he left her out at sea.

I wish that
his heart wasn't
shallow so that she
could have dived
into his
heart.