I feel like I’m drowning

Red lights in the rear view mirror

Cold shuddering mistake

Spindling sunlight clearer

One step closer to hate

Clenching hands around the heart

Shaky faking breaths

Focus on five things apart

‘You’ll be okay mate’

Boldness singing high

I could never be like you

I’m still awake when I cry

Frozen handle of glue

Twinkling stars have disappeared

The dark, dark night sky

Destiny entrenched in what I feared

Candlelit dinner on the fly

Blurred signs through my hair

An exercise in release

Vines creeping over my chest

Swarming until they cease

Smoke entrenched in happiness

Maybe snakes and ladders

Two thirty in the morning

But it only makes me sadder

A party of pirates

Parley, might you say

Only you are cruel to no end

You will make me pay

Undulated waves of coral

Grabs me by the head

The heat licks me at the ankle

Forgotten everything I said

The damage is undone

Intertwined with no meaning

Closed to everything but the sun

Until then I’m merely keening

Soaked in blue murkiness

Yelling out gabbled profanities

Dipping low into the sand

Bury them for your sanities

Scissors gape open like a mouth

Trickling ebony rivulets

Round the bend our minds go

Sold in solitary units