Out With The Old.

I. Juliet

Stain my mouth
With your bitter taste
Grapes crushed
Alcohol to waste us away
Until the sun draws
Back the curtains on
Another miserable day

The wolves will retreat
Tangled in my bedsheets
Awaken beside a stranger
I thought I knew her
But in the morning, she's a cancer
Eating my pale skin away

No, I won't let you crawl inside
"Too much to lose," I whisper
"Have you anything left to hide?"
She replies, confused look shining through
Those brilliant eyes, siempre ojos brillantes

I lie, she lies, we lie naked on our backs
Naked as we came
Seeking our truth out of cracks
In an old windowpane
Where we'd kneel, smoke half a pack
Before noon just praying, on our knees,
That dark would come soon
Hide the mistakes we've made in this
Empty apartment room

Night crept in through windows, wide
Beckoning the moon swimming in the clear plum sky
The wolves return, we can hear their cry
"I've never felt so alive," she sighed
"When I told you I feel nothing for you.. I lied.. I lied.." I confessed
My eyes on her body, parallel, undressed

So close to dying that we're finally alive
I drank the poison, savored the last drop,
I would not let the cancer she created thrive
Ripped the hands off the clock, swallowed them
As I felt my worn heart stop

Red roses stemmed from my wrists
The wolves, lurking nearby, licked their lips

II. Somewhere

Seventeen years,
And I'm counting the hours.
Five days until I'll be leaving.
For there is a better place that I have seen,
Somewhere between waking and sleeping.

Her fingertips ignite my frozen skin,
On the shores of a dream that we've found ourselves in.
That's where she said we would meet.
My beating heart, I awaken to that hollow sound.
Feel the cold, uncertainty of my own two feet,
Planted firmly on familiar ground.
Sore ribs ache for what they've missed.
Overcome with nostalgia in this Northern town.

And will she be there waiting, as promised,
Upon the rocks when I
Sail this ship into the dock
After months out on the lonely sea?
For the only place where we can exist, my Darling,
Is much closer than it may seem.
It lies somewhere between the click of the light
And the start of the dream.