The words are thick on my tongue
And fall forward like like drunken intentions
Piling at our feet like useless sand
Spilled from the hourglass of our lives
And spreading like dust around the room
Never reaching your ears
To be translated effectively
Into the message I wanted you to hear
I think you would have changed your mind
And understood the path I'd walked
But I am bound by the limits of words
Ethereal and insubstantial
And my human mastery of language
Is lacking