Words

Words caught your attention, brought two to one

Words chased with rum

Words done and undone

Words promised and whispered between breaths in bed
Words pounding away in my head
Words you wrote, words you said
Words that built bridges to a new life but found death instead

Words heavy like bricks in your pockets
Words wrapped in tears, stomping feet, shakings heads, and how can we stop this

Words tugging and ripping at the sleeves of images of what could've been
Words puzzles, missing pieces of things we’ve seen

Words so right until they're wrong, make you wrong, made me wrong, it's all wrong
Words so sad and still on paper

Words in books you grip to, knuckles white, because you can’t say so

Words slipping carelessly out of your mouth, crashing down everything we stocked high

Words in your ears, hands down your thighs

Words hanging impatient between lines

Words creeping in my thoughts between my sheets

Words rhyming and bubbling up in my sleep

Words so wrong until they’re right

Words words words just let me rest tonight