A Lead-Poisoned Heart's Score

I've noticed since you're gone,

I just don't know how to breathe.

The moon drifted away,

The stars have all been sheathed.

I've noticed when you call,

I just don't know what to say.

A greyhound charter bus,

Across the united states.

Tickets bought by severed trust,

And intertwining fates.

Your poems counted four,

But that's thousands of rules ignored.

Chorus

For instance, this sinking ship

Is learning a lead-poisoned heart's score;

Long distance relationship

Rule number two-thousand and four.

I am blissfully bereft,

I've lost the things i've owned

That i never should have kept.

Moss gathers on the stone

That lies dormant in the mud

Under the canopy.

A stanza of stammering,

Several words in my defense,

Like a thief on his deathbed

Who finally repents.

Redemption out of fear

Is brazenly insincere.

Chorus

So what's rule number

Two-thousand and three?

Well that would be

My bloodshot complacency.