Godammit, Shit’s Expensive

Stuck there
Crouched, holding your head
When we pulled you out

Without a thought
I followed you
Sat against the wall

And I, the conscious void,
Watched the wings of your eyeliner
Break

We sat there
Raw and bare

When I said
It’s because she had you by the hair and
Trapped

Somewhere a joke and a laugh
I’ll stay until you send me away

Dream the days away
Dream, dream
Tell me everything

A rare moment in focus
I could’ve swore the walls were
Pulsating when you said

I should let you go
Thanks for hanging back

What are friends for? I said
What are friends for?

Are friends for taking
Residence in my head?

A candle shielded from the breeze
Come bother me
Come bother me

You have to know
How it seems
How we’re seen

How we seem to be
Nowhere at all
Felt like soundwaves

You have to know
You have to know

I should let you-

Don’t

Published by Gianni Vitale

Nurse, songwriter, and poet from Columbia, MO.

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