tommy's ghost
08/16/09, 01:52 PM
I am the sheets that are pursed to your bed
like the woolly lips of all the "animals" you kissed
when you were but six, or ten, or 17
I am the curtains that kiss your sills
like the flesh-fledged lips of yours I pressed
when you were but 17
but I feel like a run-on sentence
that hasn't reached its dot-designated goal
I feel that I've been those woolly lips
pressed against those flesh-fledged lips
since I was placed beside your pillow
a constant companion to your life
a tin-man, a scarecrow
something in tow
I feel that I have been but one thing in this world,
I was, am, and will be yours.
like the woolly lips of all the "animals" you kissed
when you were but six, or ten, or 17
I am the curtains that kiss your sills
like the flesh-fledged lips of yours I pressed
when you were but 17
but I feel like a run-on sentence
that hasn't reached its dot-designated goal
I feel that I've been those woolly lips
pressed against those flesh-fledged lips
since I was placed beside your pillow
a constant companion to your life
a tin-man, a scarecrow
something in tow
I feel that I have been but one thing in this world,
I was, am, and will be yours.