Undertow

Your arsenal never seemed so weak when you showed up after countless weeks we didn't speak you were living in the moment Why does this tunnel light never seem to close? it leads me down this shadow path I never even asked about that overdose. I twist I trip to intervene come in between now you're laying low You're back to slipping suits up your sleeve wondering if you can breathe wandering in this undertow a scramble of need, of ramble and bleed of come and go. I watched you leave and couldn't believe that I said no. I bet on never being missed swam alone into the ocean dissolution into mist atonement for no one You came home pale silent and grey eyed you're a basilisk stare of violence and failure Unprepared for what I found inside and didn't want to know. You faded away became paint became frame now I'm swimming in your ocean You faded away like stains or like rain like words best left unspoken.