Arrow in the Breeze

Everywhere I go I’m finding

Love looks like an open mind

My love looks like a wound on fire

But I don’t want to heal right now

Talkers tell me I should go

I keep confusing pain with home

My back feels like a target range

But I don’t want it easy now

And I don’t know if I can change

Or if I ought to anyway

I have made my heart an arrow

Winds will always throw my aim

I don’t know if I can change

And maybe that’s a lucky thing

I can’t grieve another narrow shot

Into another breeze

Past a memory, straight to ghost

Your blue shirt bright on canvas tones

The wind against your face, you told me

You would never leave

Your makeup stained our countertops

My god that used to piss me off

Now I wish you’d make a mess

And bleed my painted face

Because I don’t know if I can change

Or if I ought to anyway

I have made my heart an arrow

Winds will always throw my aim

I don’t know if I can change

And maybe that’s a lucky thing

I can’t grieve another narrow shot

Into another breeze

I don’t know if

I don’t know if I can change

I don’t know if

I don’t know if I can change

If I can catch this errant breeze

Turn the lock and lose the key

Then maybe I’ll keep falling forward

And you’ll remain the mark