Slow Ride
Ride the slow ride of the secret pain,
the fuse she drove into the stony ground,
where I hailed from fell infected with
a deathly malaise that hangs around.
Detected so faintly within my eyes
the dying light that barely ever shines,
as if by a stretch I ever cared
for barstool nights and chat-up lines.
Never is safe to go outside,
where gutters are flooded with frying rain,
and if I were to taste her mouth
her lipstick forever kissed a stain.
And if I took such a liberty
to screw convention and then assume,
my heart I would bestow on her
when far too late she left the room.
Should I stumble and should I fall
whose arms would catch me on the way?
for now I am frail as porcelain,
I smash to eggshell every day.
And with my speech I bring her down
with promises rare I never keep,
I speak in tongues the sorriest truth
of milk that spilled and pointless weep.
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