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At times |
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When my mind wanders with my feet |
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My thoughts reach their destination before my body |
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Like a recurring dream |
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I find myself traveling to lands I thought beyond my reach |
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So new and different from my actual hideaway |
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And before I return to that same familiar gate |
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Words come together magnetically |
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Clearing way through the mess of obscurity |
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The knot of doubts restraining me |
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They form perfect letters to you in my imagination |
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And when finally confessed |
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Grant my release |
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Bodies bare of pretence |
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Timid and undressed |
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Do you mean to win me with these praises and offenses |
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Why ignore me if you profess to adore me |
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I didn't think you could stand the sight of me |
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At least you spoke honestly |
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My refusal was based on damaged pride |
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Not an aversion to your advances |
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Obsessed with visions of the world |
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Of night in distant places |
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What lies outside of constancy |
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Outside of these fences |
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Passing the blurry lights |
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It's not my eyes |
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It's the world that's unfocused |
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Distracted |
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I'm well acquainted with your inelegance and vice |
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You're still more graceful than the night |
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That falls in each city with a sprawling indelicacy |
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I'm straying further from home |
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From my safe routine |
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And you're trying to find your own |
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Can you blame me for inexperience |
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Just listen |
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It's all the same |
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Bodies bare of pretence |
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Timid and undressed |
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Do you mean to win me with these praises and offenses |
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Why ignore me if you profess to adore me |
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Somehow I've been lifted high above the tops of trees |
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From this frightening height |
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The buildings seem to be flattened in the streets |
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I tell myself |
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Don't look down |
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There's no way to plummet charmingly |
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And when I do I know you'll say |
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What a pity |
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She's just not what I expected her to be |
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But I can't let my fear of heights get the best of me |
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As my mind and body journey together in a parallel reality |
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I realize that if I'm falling |
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At least I'm free |
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I never want my feet to take me home |