I Love You Too, Death

Who is much more than a friend

But never by my side?

All beginnings are an end

In the blackness there's a light

Maybe you will only read

One or two letters at the most

Shipping crates might line the streets

Every stranger is a ghost

Cashiers won't deduct the pain

Loneliness sleeps on the couch

Only noticing the stain

Once the color's faded out

Let's go camping in the cold

Make a fire, buy a tent

Envision leather getting old

Re-send pigeons that were sent

Try to memorize your smell

It reminds me of a field

Crickets clearer than a bell

Have all their guys recast in steel

Birds don't cry when echoes quit

They trail off into the fog

Autumn hurts far less than sticks

Knowing winter's five feet tall

Generations of defeat

All assuming your the worst

They never tied the cans

To the back end of a hearse

Take your hand against my own

If there's a finger I can grip

Reassure me at the ace

Mine's a black heart you could flip

I've come to terms with what I have

What's been given, what's been asked

Turn my back against the sea

And beg the serpent for a dance

But in the red dirt muddy towns

Celebration of the dark

Children walking hand in hand

With the pygmies in zee park

I can't touch you only once

You always leave me wanting more

So keep my feet within the house

And stick my toes just past the door

Let me know when I'm in love

Let me die when I'm in love