See You Falling

I close my eyes, can’t bear to watch.
Got to turn away, it’s more than I can take.
Tearing my view away from that body as it’s twisting,
It’s the one I know I can’t save.
Too afraid to guess what’s in store,
I’ve an awful certainty about what will be left.


It was so quiet once you left.
I could hear my own heartbeat, the ticking of my watch.
Continuing to sort through what remained to take,
Electric cords that need twisting,
A box of junk I really shouldn’t save
A list of things to replace at the store.

That’s always the headache, determining what you can store,
And what you’d die over if it got left
. The memories of what you forget haunt you if you don’t watch
Out, and we’re never quite satisfied by what we decided to take.
How can mere objects give our emotions such a twisting?
To think we’re controlled by what we do not save…

He forgot to ask to be something I save,
As evident about his behavior in this store.
I’m not even the one who left,
So why must you self-destruct with only me to watch?
Who did you think would love you if you only take?
Don’t tell me that’s not what I said, it’s my words you’re twisting.

The falling body, still it’s twisting,
Maybe thinking of the money there wasn’t to save,
The envy of unaffordable objects at the store,
Maybe there’s money for cigarettes left,
If not pretend to look at your watch,
Then grab what you want, it’s there to take.

I think some times you experiment, seeing how much I will take.
Tug on my heart, give it a little twisting,
See if there’s anything left over to save
A little bit of feeling you can store,
Something to salvage from the bloody mess you left
When you stopped feeling and decided to just watch.

Would it help if I said I wasn’t going to watch the fall you take?
Not even the twisting into a spectacular save.
You and the trampoline stayed at the store, but I left. -srw


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