Returning
The Calmative
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In the afternoon we came to Like a knot around a rope Never come undone But only loose And then we tightened And we choked There was a warning sign In her smile to me A memory of her father As he sipped from empty drinks I could see She wasn't clean When I entered through the door She took me all the way Into that same room Where as a child she used to stay I could still recall The bottle like a vase That held her Yellow rose its petals in decay It seemed to me she was the same She was still and I could see her Like a fracture in a view Everything was there but misaligned We were the lines of my confusion Life is never heavy when you're free But you can't be alive When you ain't got the gravity That was how it had to be Life got heavy when her parents passed away On that midnight road Just off the interstate They were coming home They were never out so late Now I've come home too To a town never awake To a past I couldn't shake In the afternoon I was dressed to the nines At her door in a suit and tie That I thrifted but nobody would known Holding in my hand a yellow rose And a plastic jug of vodka Like the ones we used to hold To our lips out in the cold We were not the only ones To raise some hell We learned from the ones That we toasted in the shells Back then I could tip A bottle in the air Back then she could slip A throttle into gear Without any fear I wasn't who I used to be But I was what I always was I was always hearing For the sound always Reaching for the touch When she pressed herself to me I could feel her tremble Like a wave out of the sea How it breaks and then recedes I tried to still her She was hard and hardly there I told her I was home I wasn't going anywhere I asked her if she had an extra bed to spare Follow me, she said. You can lie down anywhere But leave your baggage over there
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