Jul 30, 2013

but i won't

I wish I were clear-eyed and capable, 
that I didn't feel the need to know where you are. 

I wish I could stop writing love songs, 
quit wasting the paper. 

But your force was like an indelible ink 
that I have to spread thinner and thinner 
until I can barely make out the lines 
that once told a story more complete than we could act out. 
If you ever change your mind, you said...