once a song by the airborne toxic event, now a poem |
You stand alone amongst a crowded room Under bright bar lights and immersed in song The piano a melancholy soundtrack to her smile You try to lose yourself for a minute or two But you know she is watching, She’s laughing, she’s turning, She’s holding her tonic like a cross. And the room is suddenly spinning She walks over and asks how you are Just so you can smell her perfume And remember her lying naked in your arms And there’s a change in your emotions Memories come rushing in like feral waves Like the curl of your bodies Like two perfect circles entwined Across your frayed mind, tearing you into two You feel hopeless and homeless— Lost in the haze of the wine. She leaves with someone you don’t know But she makes sure you saw her… She looks right at you and bolts As she walks out the door You’re blood boiling, your stomach in ropes And your friends say “what is it—you look like you’ve seen a ghost!” And you walk under the street lights— Too drunk to notice everyone staring at you You don’t care what you look like The world is falling around you You just have to see her, You know that she’ll break you in two |