Fire and the Thud

You showed me my tomorrow

Beside a box of matches

A welcome threatening stir

My hopes of being stolen

Might just ring true

Depends who you prefer

But if it's true, you're gonna run away

Tell me where, I'll meet you there

Am I snapping the excitement

If I pack away the laughter

And tell you how it feels?

And does burden come to meet ya

If I've questions of the feature

That rolls on your dream reel?

The day after you stole my heart

Everything I touched told me

It would be better shared with you

With you

And now you're hiding in my soup

And this book reveals your face

And you're splashing in my eyelids

As the concentration continually breaks

I did request the mark you cast

Didn't heal as fast

I hear your voice in silences

Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud?

In the jostling crowd

You're not allowed to tell the truth

And the photo booth's a liar

Liar

There's a sharpened explanation

But there's no screaming reason to inquire

I'd like to poke them in their prying eyes

With things they'd never see

If it smacked them in their temples