Wasted Days

Wasted Days

We talked all night,
Stayed up til five
Saying nothing that mattered.
And I came over
When pink had stained the sky,
Shattered, a dreamy train ride.
Our clothes over the tip on your floor
Scattered, and no question of more,
You felt me sigh.

So many days we threw away
And lost between the sheets
With an icecream tub as our ashtray
Your simplicity, at first so sweet
Slowly suffocated me
Made me fifteen,
My vapour words dissolved to nothing.
And as I softly kiss your neck,
I’ll never let myself admit
I’m in over my head.

We couldn’t be more different could we?
You’re only still when you’re asleep.
No questions means
We don’t tell lies,
Not so different, you and I.
I wonder as I watch you dream
Why things are never as they seem,
And why again I cannot sleep,
But watch the streetlamps’ yellow light,
That turns birds into UFOs
In shining fleets that fill the sky.

25/5/05