SILENCE

speak my language
speak my language
please slow down I stumble this is ridiculous
I can't walk everyone can see what I've done

get off the tracks! I
want this for you but don't say
the train howls reverberates for six hours
until lying in my bed beautiful blank white walls
shimmer hot glow brighter roar louder to keep me awake

if I told you what they've done
would you still want to love them
before this happened I could not speak looked at you

vision for the insomniac
in the middle of the night
smooth blue veins drummed my wish pale and shiny
I closed my eyes but did not sleep
she bleeds? of course she bleeds
then all was quiet

my backyard my big backyard I'm forgetting I'm always forgetting
my God my God why have you
what will I

time passed
perhaps I couldn't really speak of such strange salvation

three stones are left standing at my ruins
wake stretch ache today I breathe against my will
but there is no other enduring fame than this