Compartmentalized

I can see the galaxy in your smile

I’ll walk on frozen tacks if you promise

to compliment your style, walk on the cracks that break your mom’s back, and push me another mile

to see the sweat bleed from my calloused heart

to melt the gorilla glue dangling me over a cliff from falling apart and to give me another start

a rotating trip of a convoluted color where I ask for a sparked cigarette

knowing full well you won’t let me have another

because we broke our mother’s backs

and the fact of the matter is that we walked on the cracks in our palms

we separated oxygen from our lungs

and you told me you’d be my breath

you told me it would be fun

but my definition of love has been compromised to a grain of sand under the sun

where it’s walked on

and picked up, put into broken sandcastles, and stepped on by everyone

I’ll watch time fade into a millenium of hate

where my pajamas won’t fit anymore

and “Oh, I thought this was mutual” will be all that I can say

when you suck the starlight from my day

The tide bleeds red if your kaleidoscope eyes look at it just right

because when the tide in my veins runs low

I wanna know that you’re here with me, holding me in the night

when my mind races like Mike Tyson’s arms in a boxing fight

I love you

and my fingers type with tears breaking the dams in my eyes

I don’t know what to do

I could say goodbye

but I don’t want to spend another minute without you.