Only words, to turn you around
Only words, my friend, to catch your fall
But I am powerless, speaking in echoes
Into the bunker in which you lie
The world warring all around you with
A lightness of heart you simply will never match
I'd pull you along but I'm busy with excuses
I'd love you but I'd not give myself whole
For after my own struggle, outside my own bunker
I'm as terrified of sinking ships as the rest of them
And if nothing of my voice issued is familiar
It's because the only thing that matters now
Is keeping afloat
There's an honesty that's destructive
And real
But I cannot write as I used to
For I have become a ghost
And who I am, and why
Is lost to achievement
Forgive me, friend, and meet me on the other side

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