i saw someone with smiles
i touched someone with strength
i loved him as a buttercup
loves the bumble bees
live from me, and i for you, but please
be free
please
don't fall in love
with a ****

the syntax of our song
a phantom
we will hum along
someday
another chorus
best left
open
we don't have to play ahead
or tap time to this
to know
act one was where
we ended
in the most
mellifluous
way

away
we go
don't say
a word
i feel you
i still do
i swear i know
it's hard to keep
castling
it's not worth catching
an outcast
over
so stay,
i'll go

You are strung like pearls
I, a tight rope
Us, a noose
We can't slip through

the baby doesn't know
the arms rocking him are bones
the woman feeding him is
weening him
onto life by
weening
herself
off

he doesn't see
her teardrops through his
own
he doesn't see
her eyes droop as his
close

she does her best to
save him
even if she cannot
raise him
and the lullabies get
softer

slower
shorter
still

the baby doesn't know

so i broke my key
trying to slash your tires
we love in spirals