Your face is cold
Tears roll down and freeze
The sides of your nose
Icicles hang off your cheeks
Your appearance
Is someone I once knew
She fell asleep
I doubt a kiss would wake her now
Does she dream my memories?
Long days lost staring at the sun
Northeast summer haze
Swatting away mosquitoes that
Suck away our youth
I take your hand
Force you on the dance floor
Your moves are stiff
Gave up flair for perfection in form
Do you dream my memories?
Fingertips gently tracing ‘cross the skin
Leaning close to whisper
Open the door it will never shut
Open the door it will never shut
Open the door it will never shut
At least that once was
What I thought
Wait—what’s this I see?
Recognition in your eyes
For a moment, for a split second
Everything is exactly how it was
With hope we fight it
But it comes to no avail
Time, God’s cruelest creation
A bulldozer clearing everything in its path
Run away, we’ll run away
But you can’t move, you’ve sunk into the mud