Land To Swim To

"guilty with the blood of something beautiful

all over me

i’ve been weak and leaking so much poison

in all the rivers around me

the fish are dying

and the trees are vying for some light

but i’m the eternal night

i wasn’t gonna be just ok

i was gonna be perfect

was gonna make my love feel

like the first time you rode your bike without training wheels

kneel before you every day

like there was no one else before you

cause i’ve heard your heart beat

like that breeze that could bring any violence to its knees

and the best lines i’ve ever written

i plagiarized every word from the thoughts of yours

i heard while you were just sittin in silence

when i wanted to be eighty with you

birth babies like poems with you

and let them write themselves

wanted to hold your heart to my ear like a sea-shell

til i could hear the tides of every tear you’ve ever cried

then build islands in the seas of your eyes

so you’d see there’s land to swim to

was gonna love you so well

i’d wake every morning

and tell you things like this…

bliss is the moments you’re with me

when your gone my life hurts like hell

but i’ll do anything to make you happy

even if it means setting you free"