Stumble forward again

Slowly fading blue from red

With lips that flatter copper tones

And a tongue that trades sticks for stones



A crack is subtly etched in time

Throwing everything out of line

A perpetual skip in the beat of life

Skeletons tangled up in my sheets tonight



There's an echo within this quiet

But my mind can not decode it

A lingering whisper

Too cryptic to decipher

Hinting rapture for us all