Have You Seen Me Lately?

I believed in true love

Until it stabbed me in the back

Suppressed me with contradictions

Lead me astray and beyond

You were amazing to me

A rudderless dreamboat

With sails of butterfly wings

And hummingbird feathers

My winds were destined

Straight for paradise

For heaven, for Loveland

I would sweep us there

If only you were strong

All I could do was love you

Like the tidal wave I was

Marveling from afar

But to swim you knew not

So we had everything to lose

Straight from the gun

We were two tumbleweeds

Rambling across the desert

And in all that open space

We somehow collided

B-lined for the highway

Bound to cause a car crash

Well you didn’t want to see

All the good I was to bring

And I preferred to muffle

The darkness in your depths

So we were always separated

By a barrier of ignorance

But you seemed much closer

When I wore those rosy lenses

“When you know, you know”

Until you realize you don’t know

Then I’m just standing there

With a dizzy grin and my heart

Outstretched in both palms

Naked to the flesh, vulnerable

As he draws the curtains open

The audience is howling

Like a hundred starving wolves

Well, the jokes on me

Because he’s in the front row

Holding up the laugh track

Foolishness arrests me

So I’m trying my hardest

To break down evenly

To become a pesky stain

On your creaking floorboards

Until there is no surviving proof

That we fell miserably in love

Then fell gracefully apart