miss a beat
when truth’s called out
try to pretend you’ll never recover
sinking so long
you’ll never touch bottom
& never break surface again
mist & rain
roar like a dragon
imagining nothing could ever save you
crystalline heart
feels like it could shatter
you’ll never touch fortune again
in the dawn
the melting light of dawn
miss a step
fall all the way down
to finally touch bottom
& maybe
start clawing your way back up
falling
skyward
falling upside-down onwards
calling
crying
calling out for me
beauty has a goal
she is not for a goal
you have the best for you
falling
outwards
falling out with no fear
beauty is not a goal
she is your friend for gold
for you
beauty is not her goal
she has a life of her own
she is your friend for gold
for you
it makes as much sense as any lines i write
& probably comes from
the same lost place
where wasps & ghosts & champions battle
a neverending story of games & wars
but the truth is
i don’t know
anything except
i want your time & your eyes in mine
i want you on my team
without drafting you into my wars
i don’t want it to be complicated
but complicated is all i know
so
oh well
here we go again
there’s a furnace in my head
it’s melting
melting down the silver
raging like a fever
put an ice cream cone in my hand
tell me
tell me
tell me to freeze
stretch out & wait for the fall
puddling around my feet
silver
melting silver sparkles
an explosion in an old factory
in the darkest part of the city
stretch out & wait for the crush
a better moonbeam
a better springtime
original & faded with time
i photographed it
then i forgot it
lost in time
far away & for soon forgotten
laugh it all & laugh again
a better moonbeam
a better riptide
drown it all & fade it down
i memorized it
then i forgot it
a better moonbeam baby
next time
i won’t forget
