I slept rather roughly in the coldest fall
Then I heard a raven starkly call
“You thought of her as you went to bed
But its merely minutes before she’s fled”

Amidst electric tongues and serpent eyes
I perused the room for alibis
Good friends and company, I do not stir
The reflections remain as one of her

Drunken rooms and worn-out talks
Dew of dawn brazenly knocks
I did not try to catch her eye
So there’s no harm in saying goodbye

I remember the friends that I made in a blur
But if that is returned, I’m not sure
I have not had enough to stall my mind
There is a happy dance I wish to find

The tastes of love and camaraderie
Fall like a cold blanket upon me
Seek solutions like stars under purple nights
And wish for our bed below to give us flight

As familiarity escapes
Every itch will take its shape
Into a conversation, you can smile and lie
So there’s no harm in saying goodbye

What’s done is past, but who’s to say it’ll wait
To turn itself into harmless fate?
I’ll imagine times where I knew them before
And lose myself so I can know them more

The scents of youth often try to bloom
And yet she stands softly in the room
Past rambled gawks, uttered, muttered slurs
She will not know that I dream to be hers

As faces race behind the door
There is no one here anymore
She has no memory of me tonight
So there’s no harm in saying goodbye

I will ask tomorrow’s vices to wait
And stay at the porch of morning’s gate
Oh, to sleep with an arm inside the pocket of your mind
Oh, I refuse and confess I fear to find

What’s left of my painting as night’s drawl drones
The image shown is of the travel home
The foolish thoughts lay on the floor in knots
I never asked for what I never brought

The sun is duly calling me
I beckon at her waving sea
October is not far from July
So there’s no use in saying goodbye