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Clementine

It's the things

that we don't say

that really pulls us

back to each other.


I see eternity resting behind your lips

I feel a longing behind your eyes

but I also sense a disaster

that'll wash over me

if I ever try to reach 

beyond your surface

because I know that

you'll never be able to understand

What's underneath mine.


It's the things that 

I almost say yet don't

that kill me after we say goodbye

and walk our separate ways.


You quieten my demons.

my insecurities collapse

when you show your faith in me 

you make me want to be myself

but I am not the only one

whose name rests on

the tip of your tongue

like a prayer

like a song 

you cannot stop humming

like the name

you'd happily call your own

for as long as we're here


I won't ever be you

what you are to me

and I am okay with that

I am okay but that alone

is not enough.


I wish it was enough.

I wish you didn't matter

so much, to me.

I wish you didn't have

so much, power over me.


But once that, is enough,

I am not ready to cry again.

For too long have I ignored my demons.

It is time, to have a talk with them.



Entercoms 12th March 2021


Comments

Sid495 said…
This is really deep. . Especially the last one when you said, it's time to talk with them, I could feel it.
June 19, 2021 at 9:07 AM
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