Skylights Ignite
Iron and ocean. Salt and blood.
A perfume i can’t diffuse
i’ve written this same song several times
And the words always get reused
i guess my language lost its meaning
The letters fell away
All that’s left is a casket full of words
i never got to say.
This pen will bury it.
You’ve served as confirmation
That when you pass away
It’s not the vessel left to rot
But loved ones who decay
Like the raining down sand
Of a broken hourglass
We’re all drowning in our futures
That may never come to pass
So we sing:
They gave you a headstone
But chiseled your exit in my chest
Another skylight ignites
Another friend laid to rest
With a new moon in bloom
We’ll fall from the sky
Let the sandbar be our burial ground
Before the heavens beneath us die
i am deeply sorry i could not be there on the day when they put you into the ground for good.
