Cassandra

Let me remind you This was what you wanted You ended it You were all I wanted But not like this Not like this All you had to do was stay Had me in the palm of your hand Then why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?

Ten months sober, I must admit Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it Ten months older, I won't give in Now that I'm clean, I'm never gonna risk it The drought was the very worst When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst

That night you were talkin' False prophets and profits They make in the margins Of poetry sonnets You never read up on it Shame, could've learned something Robert Bly on my nightstand Gifts from you, how ironic The curse or a miracle, Hearse or an oracle You're incomparable

The time will arrive for the cruel and the mean You'll learn to bounce back just like your trampoline But now we'll curtail your curiosity

I want auroras and sad prose I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet 'Cause I haven't moved in years

Time turns flames to embers You'll have new Septembers Every one of us has messed up too Minds change like the weather I hope you remember Today is never too late to be brand new

So I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep And I feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe