When
she saw the end plates
I started to panic
While performing for passengers
Clamoring for the static
Riveting but not riveted
And harder to pin down
Than her mother's half -baked recipe
For a night on the town
Bleeding smaller
Than early autumn leaves deafene
d by the forest,
and sickened by the trees
of your insipid inspiration
infamous verb -cursive rebounds
insidious and ob vious, un glamorous
God, it's great to have you back in town
I hear you say that the
heat was unbearable
Guess I should've no ticed
You're more than just
a little uncomfortable
But I never said I love you
Or even that I missed you
I never once said I just wanted to kiss you
Love in action, lacking in detail
Poetic in its remission,
forever for sale
To the absolute beginner
Well ain't tomorrow from the past
Was this your very,
very first time, my dear?
Cause I'm afraid
It'll be the last
Did she dream the accident
Or was it really real
The shattering glass
And the grinding of steel
Caught in the headlights
Hiding behind the absurd
Grew the happiness
and the laughter of the word
But the hum was thicker
than lovers in retreat
And the cries were wider
than the passing of disease
There's still echoes in the canyon
Trickling out over the past
Through the poorest explanation
Except this one was meant to last
The cap to the potion
had no longer sealed
Swimming in the shadows,
would her pain be re vealed?
Still the warmth was soothing,
harder to deny
Just like the glaciers that
freeze every
The emotion and tear that you cried
Burning closer
Than the flowers in full bloom
The sadness of knowing
what's in store for you too soon
In the softest of situations
The hardest weakness to conceal
The most pleasurable indecision
Lack of anything left to feel
Love made by fire or frozen from regret
Every particle of hope and faith
fused motionless from neglect
Hard -won battles for forgiveness
with their knowledge of defeat and war
Love ripples away in fading circles
from your cast -off from the shore
But the pain was brighter
When the shackles of summer's past
The surrender was more sus picious
than convincing
Or relaxed
To be continued later
To be finished at any cost
What you want, and all you abandon
In the end, was exactly what you lost