It's your birthday and I wanted to send you flowers.
But I didn't want to intrude on your little patch of glory.

And for a moment I am happy
And for a moment I am not
it continues in a dizzy, confused fashion
that I’m not sure if I should stop
Does this ride have a sudden end?
Do I really want to get off?

If time heals all wounds,
why does each day without you
hurt worse than the last?

There’s a moving portrait above my sink,
her cheeks are pudgy,
her skin is pink.

Her eyes are melting,
teeth fallen out,
her noose is bleeding
a river of doubt.

The portrait screams,
she cries for aid,
she tells a dead god,
that he could have stayed.

No oil,
no paint,
no canvas,
not a brush;
Instead this portrait feels and aches,
her rawness still to gush.

Yet dusk is dusk,
and by dawn it is dawn.
You may look for such a portrait,
to find that it is gone.

Not a finger nail in sight,
not a single clogged hair.
It begs but one question:
Was she ever really there?