wounding tree

i touch the places that we've been
drive the streets
under the lights

that run in knives
and separate our skins

on the cell and in email
we talk and words
are all we have

between us.
each time they fail us


and tell me why when we touch
it all seems too very much
why after we sigh
you only hear me when i say
goodbye


he only hears me when i say
goodbye

broken cars,broken dreams
such are promises and schemes
reversal of a life
we could have been


i saw you in your wounding tree
shot you a line
to help you down
but it doubled back on me



and tell me why when we touch
it all seems too very much
why after we sigh
you only hear me when i say
goodbye




i thought about the last time
i ever saw his face
the way we couldn't say the words
in the right place

we cut our stardust with hot sand
blew it in each others eyes
whispered winner's losing prayers
and said farewell again


and tell me why when we touch
it all seems too very much
why after we sigh
he only hears me when i say
goodbye