But What Do I Know
On those late nights,
we shared our thoughts like cigarettes.
Your lipstick still adorns my collar,
like a red badge of courage.
Throughout our lives we never cared enough,
so what was one more night to us.
It is strange how the times change.
If I saw you now, I might not recognize you.
I never had good excuses to tell you.
We were always searching for something,
we could never define.
It turns out it was all just a waste of time.
I just wanted to make things right,
but now I live with this bottled up spite.
Things happened to me much too fast.
I just wanted to take a moment and make it last.
I know complex chemistry and plutonian physics,
but I only wish I knew what all my efforts were for.
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