I open my eyes when you’re near me. |
I open my eyes when you’re near me you give me air when I suffocate on stress drown in depression, choke on nonchalance when Jack and Jim and Jose delude my senses and send me into a trippy, blurry, no holds barred mind fuck you’re there to hold my hair as I puke apologies into the toilet You sober me And when I think I have nothing to offer when I’m nothing more than a speck in life a blemish, a sore, a spot Out Damn Spot you hold me and you hug me and somehow in the end we’ve found a balance between sinking to the bottom and floating so high, so high we’re dizzy we’re dizzy, dizzy, dizzy and down we go, but not us because we do lunch in the middle and order ourselves a fat helping of sautéed self appreciation with a side of fried worthiness. You settle me It gets so dark when you’re not around when you’ve gone away and I screw things up and slip and find my way back to the bottle, back to the lack of air back to dancing to ugly music pretending I’m happy with a waltz when I’d rather have a boogie and in the dark, when I get lost in the dark and everything’s dark and repetition is dark I need you there to help me see to help me open my eyes because I open my eyes when you’re near me and I need you to see because I see what we see and I need you to see You illuminate me. Written for "Invalid Item" by A Guest Visitor Won the daily challenge for 5/12/06 |