I tried to do everything I could to get this storm to cease its thundering,
but the constant wind and rain is flooding my egocentric brain.

I can level off this pain if you could give me strength and time of day
but all I see is a sea sent gale and it’s coming to take you away
(From me, from me, from me)

Savour every moment of this thin night air.
You’ll need some motive to fall back on once we clear our heads of the smoke in this room.
Bring peace to your maker, you’re not letting him down.

Chew your tongue till the blood spouts like a river set loose on the ghost town.
Keep still, this night is young and black as my desire, I only dream of the forest’s musk on my neck.
Let’s run, we’re animals and this darkened earth is our backyard.

Reach your hands out to sea
I’ll take them willingly
If you would so benignly please
An unworthy host as me.

I could believe in hope elsewhere
To run a hand through other soft hair
But I am far too unaware
Of strength residing deep down there.

You meant too much
I felt too little
When I was with you
All along

Called out of border
To carry the fears away
Of the peoples’ dreams
Seaside homes, under a great
Dark
Cloud.

Unbeknownst to me, I left
With you behind, I hardly wept
You tried to hold me close
With eyes beseeching
Won’t you love me?
With me breathing,
Can’t I love her?

You tried, I failed
You believed that love would dwell in my heart for you
I had missed any intentions
Of a future
Bright
Between the spaces of our fingers
Holding on
To the other.

Dreams have soared through my nighttime mind
Your hands may still stretch out
And I could perhaps
Dream of a day where it would kick enough sense around
In this
****
Brain

That I should have loved you when I had the chance.

But for now across this sea
A life is lost
My only companion is this gray dog
He never leaves my side

I should have never left yours.