The Holding On

How far did you stumble leaning on a ghost?

Now your eyes fix on the ceiling

Here comes a long lost feeling

Did drifting on turn from courage

To a wilder form of pleading?

Does the holding on keep you from healing?

Don't ask why the time goes still

Don't try to close the void wide open, child

I know you probably will

Make it last until

The old moonlight strikes your counter

Slides down your window sill

Grabs hold of the lines on your hand uncurled

With light from the craters of a different world

Where husks of days wasted

Lay where the tide receded

When holding on kept you from healing

I'm trying hard, my friend

You know I don't like feeling this for you

Burn off your selfish ends

Take off that shell inside your shell

And start receiving

You are now grieving

You're the sound of one heart beating