Brewster

I lie awake

I lie asleep

Replaying every word I didn't mean

Too apathetic to move on or stay

Ethereal fiction

Authored and erased

I bit my tongue

You talk some shit

Where a spine oughta be

A streak of spit

Funny, is there nothing left here for me

Sucker, you silly boy

There shouldn't be

Petty bitter needy creature

I'll take and leave everything worse enough

Clinical, cynical, nurture or nature

Hit from below and above

If they ask just say I'm good

I'm good

We're good

As if I could be I would

I'll never let it go

Until I see the light of you I know

Wash up on the shore after the storm

As debris careens down

Soliloquies imbue the sound

Deaf as an adder

Find no stillness in these bones

In these bones

If they ask just say I'm good

As if I could be I would

If they ask just say I'm good

I'm good

We're good

As if I could be I would

If you're out there find me please before I leave

Cuz I just wanna know

Before I go

A little peace

Is it all too much to ask

To have and to hold and to keep

Never thought my words or my big mouth

Could bare these teeth