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Scarred hands moving upwards

In tired desperation

At buttons and clasps

And that song that was playing just right

Every note makes me feel insane

Your hands dug out trash

Too rough on my skin

The reason I let you in

We smelt so pretty

This perfect mix of country and city

And in your eyes I see screaming

Reverberating

From every place that should be safe

And there's certain songs I write just for you

But they'll never be heard

A single word

They get caught somewhere between my teeth and my tongue

That same place that we would hold our breath

Right before we'd come

They've all disappeared out over the ocean anyway

Reflected only in opalescent shocks of silver and grey

In that place where you left me screaming to nothing but waves and sky

Like a witch wounded and rejected surrounded by the smell of unknown fauna that remind me of a place I used to know

And I hear how my voice has changed to shivers and shakes

As I spit curses at the end of my world and wonder how i got that way

But these bloodied ears still hear your laugh the few times this past year it's been sincere

And the weight of my toes drifing through the water

Was as deft as the flicking of your line

And I know we're still there somewhere moving in time

And I'll always go home

But you never will

Wait

I used to know you

And the weight of my toes drifting through the water

Was as deft as the flicking of your line

We're still there moving in time

And in your eyes I see screaming

Reverberating

From every place that should be safe

And I

I used to know you