I don’t know how to say the words
That linger in my head
Like dusty cobwebs
Of what I should have said
So I write it down
Cough it out
And I guess
That’s never quite enough
These paper pills
And bottled dreams
And broken romance underneath
My open arms
A quiet touch
And I don’t know what it means
But you left me hanging on a thread
of hope and dreams
And never-end
but who was I
to believe in what you said?
I write the odds and ends of thoughts
That linger like the dust
On every rusty countertop
And I only write what I must
And the bloody scraps
Of what I told you
Fall apart and fray
These paper pills
And bottled dreams
And broken romance underneath
My open arms
A quiet touch
And I don’t know what it means
But you left me hanging on a thread
Of hope and dreams
And never-end
But who was I
To believe in what you said?
If you
Only believed in what you saw
Then maybe what I showed you was the truth
Or was it
You only loved me because you hated every other person
Well I guess we have that in common
These paper pills
I’ve saved my dreams
In crumpled paper in between
The dust and dirt inside the seams
And I know now what they mean
Well these words were true, I knew, I said,
“to confound,” as if that made some sense
I guess, suppose, you had the right
To leave me here inst ead
With nothing,
but these
Paper pills to keep me sane.
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