Floating Words

On this day ten years ago / I came undone at my seams / Torn apart by you

My lungs are filled with lead / My heart can barely beat / My feet are frozen here

The waves came in quickly / So unexpectedly / Surrounded me and drowned me

I haven’t been out / In what must be twenty years / I’ve been sitting here

I wish I knew a way / To wipe you from my mind / Erase the memory of

I’m dealing with permanent damage / From a temporary love / A deep and lasting scar

If I could make a change / I would do it now / But it is too difficult

Open up my heart / You will find your name / Written in the chambers

Snatch away my breath / Throw it to the wind / Let it linger on your palm a bit

There’s no point / Trying to change / What I’ve already known was coming

Leave me here / I’m as good as dead / My intestines spilling out

I felt holy with you / Like I’d been washed / With some sort of cleansing rain

The sound of rain punctuated / The looks you threw at me / Emphasized the words

Take away my talents / And you take away identity / Strip me of the knowledge

I haven’t thought about you / Since you walked away / I buried your existence

I don’t want to be in love again / It seems blasphemous to you / I haven’t mourned enough

I haven’t known / What I wanted / For longer than I

On any other Tuesday / I’d have said goodbye to you / Still in the bed

You took me / You held me / You kissed me…

She is the sun, the moon / And all the stars / As they've said before…