you left the door slightly open on your way. swelling suitcase, silent, winding, cold iron staircase. i sit by the mirror, i'll take the pearls from my ears slowly right, left, gone. i try to write. they always told me i was much too quick to fade. i am a window in the snow, cold outside and in. i'll face the door with a broken handle, it wouldn't shut, it wont shut, i won't shut i'll try again, but you wont come back i've tried again i dance to lovesick ballads in my mind, i wont lift a finger, none reach out i'm a window, a friend to fog you never wanted to wipe away in the spring it's winter now in my bones, in my veins lost in seas and oceans, dancing iced rivers of misunderstandings in circles i try to write