Paint

I heard the notes all fade away

Leaving memorial stones

Yesterday's thoughts have come to stay

Until they decompose

A picture paints a thousand words

With nothing much to say

What last night seemed had to be heard

Is left unsaid today

So when you said you understood

I couldn't understand

I was looking at an empty beach

As you saw all the grains of sand

I was counting views from windows

When you looked in from outside

The light was blurred and distant

And several cities wide

So I turn up the volume

To hear the notes so dim

You said you couldn't hear it

So I asked you to come in

Then you held up a mirror

And I saw my face congeal

I was thin and getting thinner

And I dreamt for real