I Have to Take You Home

I Have to Take You Home
for Alie

'It's getting late love, it's just about time
For me to draw a bath, perhaps unwind
Today has been a long and trying one
And all things left unsaid, undone
Before I have to take you home,'

Good company mixed with coffee and laughs
As often we want what we can't have
As often raindrops pelt your porch and railing
Winds whisper just beyond the screen, now wailing
Within our blankets, beneath I wonder
Amidst distracting rolls of thunder
Why don't we just stay here...?

Into the later hours under weeping skies
A four door Saturn with passengers flies
Across the lamp's illuminated bridge
That mirrors auroroa far off the ridge
A carfull of uncertainity and fear
That if you hold fast, I could disappear
A semi-chuckle, a laugh...then a sigh
Not once have I ever understood why
We both have to sleep alone...

Upon arriving to my humble home
And blindly gaze from window out to street
Where downpours flow towards inundated drains
And bleeds with turquoise-red oil stains
Awaiting the next moments we meet
And vaguely see reason to push away
I should've gone home those nights I stayed...

With this being certain, or mildly untrue
There is somewhere I need to take you too
Where more beneath these feet defends
No one demanded
Commanded to pretend
They are someone that they're not...

And sunlight cascades off porch and railing
Cool autumn paints of amber leaves
A portrait and frame remembers
Adjacent to sketches of Our December
Where one stops running, believes
With guise of lover or friend
In the end
They're someone to come home to....

Alas, the rain will never end
It flows like rivers sated with salt
About open wounds unlikely to mend
Where brothers...
And daughters...
Are never kissed or touched
Or missed so much
Because they are solely penned.

'I...have to take you home...'