let me lose myself
it’ll happen eventually
when you turn your back for too long
refrain from blinking
lose my forever
i never played the protagonist
and our jerseys are of different color
good terms caught me unevenly
and inconsiderately i’ll
keep from doing anymore damage
i was meant to
come and go
and my visits
forever temporary
you know me better than that
i know less stable horizons
forgive me
if only you could
we covered this in the preface
and like castles in the sky unvandalized
whisk away with your cigarettes
things are better off this way
i don’t even have to exist
outside of this place
simply place me into
my corresponding shoebox
and you’ll never have to hear
from me ever again
they told me
to be
careful;
slightly lean-
ed
over and
whispered ever so
quiet-
ly
(all most as to
where i heard
the shuffling of
the
lip
s
more
than the act-
ual
words that were
sp-
oken);
but i
was-
n’t
care-
full
when i looked wondrously in
to
myself;
on-
ly
while skip-
ping ro-
cks
or
climb-
ing
trees
and as the warmer weather withers us colder
we carry it on our shoulders
moving boulders
ignorance is bliss explains itself as we grow older
we had bigger dreams when were smaller people
but i’m only as small as i make myself
