Sing me to sleep
In a nest of rust-bitten leaves.
I guess this is why they call it falling
Asleep.
My memory replays my favourite song
As it was in your voice:
Play, rinse, repeat
Skip a beat
And even in dreams I can't
Arrange a rendezvous
Where our eyes might meet
For that, I need a beach.
The song: long gone
But the waves keep beat
And the lonely stones keep time
With nobody to skip them.
The intro kicks in
When you scrunch your eyes
Along my laughter lines
And "...all you've ever wanted"
Is the moment defined in
Your very own tones
But in my mind.
Respect minus three years,
And you don't look down.
When we exchang
Your eyes are two too true blue
Lamplit pools in the gloom
And the transparency of your eyelashes
Is my delicate doom
In light of dark situations.
My mind becomes the paperweight
On the heavy light you eminate.
Every second I waste
Is another chord you chase
Up and down the strings of the afternoon
With impressive parodies
And childhood memories
And satyrical absurdities
Over my sunsoaked skin.
Shared spin threads lines
Where you end, I begin.
Grass stains hold plastic cups
And the afternoon's lazy.
Laughing through our tear ducts
Was never this easy.
You are effortlessly you as ever
And for once
I am effortlessly me.
We are
Candlewax figurines in
Tabletop bear traps
When we play with closed flames
But my fingers won't dance.
You are smooth as a match
A real class act
In your fake bow-tie
And conversing feet beneath
And your eyes just out of reach.
Open-neck laughter
And blue silk suggestion
Catch the cards
When you sing along to nothing
I melt.