BEFORE
I should win an award
For how much I kept inside
If there was a medal for saying less
A ribbon for this mess
We’d take gold
For this winding, endless plight
For far too many nights,
I kept you hidden in plain sight
DURING
Looking in mistaken places
Holding too many faces
You caught me tonight
Falling through immensities
I’ll give the streetlights my confessions
And you’ll offer the sidewalk acceptance
All of our multitudes
Rest in the streets by the sea
Without the words to sort this out
The moon still wanes, the shoreline will fade
But I stand, lost in my doubt
When my eyes are slipping away,
Tired from the truth of this day
Long after your songs play
And there’s nothing left between us to say
In this dimly lit space, I want us to stay
AFTER
Let the edges of today blur
Into the coastline
Where we were
Lost in the light of day
Flickering to flash as I lay
Equally blind
As I am alive
Visions
While standing in a downpour
I found the last words of our story
On the cliffside of an observatory
All of those magic tricks inside my heart
Moving on, pulling it apart
Too busy pulling rabbits out of hats
You didn’t see me slip away
An expert concealed, a master at that
