keep.me.there.

the need for anything more than nothing. their eyes open wide, dialated and vapid. lost inspiration, took a wrong turn trapped in the closet. hidden innuendos going high over the heards of sheep exchanged for dreams. sticky note the snowflakes to strawberry milkshakes. hard to ask the problem when the answer is just as unwanted. enigmas so rare that they're never unique. my words are my thoughts, interchangable. the desire for something only admitted to one person. head under pillows, fingers in ears, blindfolded under the bed. muffled heartbeat before its rhythms pulse true. my saving grace called in sick today. common sense works the forty hour nine to five week with no such thing as overtime. random guitar strings hanging, waiting to put your head through the noose. wishing you were older to get in on the inside joke. paying your way through circumstance. prepaid travel plans to the past. silent; pencil scratching away at the paper, erasing the plastic cover on nerve endings. footsteps overhead, underground, passing through who you are today. the bit down fingernails driven in and forever sealing the coffin. one last take before the body's numb, before the remaining moral fragments blow away in the blistering wind as dead flakes of skin. bittersweet silence. dissect the narrator; the lack of heart, the poison blood, the frosted tissue inside and out. warmth of longing never felt so cold. awaiting the elusive sleep, to join in on the slumbering world of illusion, to take door number two and find the easy way out. brushing fingertips in desolate backalleys. the promise of blood mingling with broken concrete and spilled coffee leaking out of the paper cup at your feet. fangs bared, botched the job as approaching light. infection spreading as transformation to moonlight, forsake the sun. antibiotics dulling the thirst. whispers frozen on the air.