i have burned through pages
like memories i wish to forget
used these sheets
like love lost

i have poured
word after glorious word
upon the forgiving white
i have bled

if ever did i find salvation
it was then




for a split
moment in time i lay in love

love passed through my door
engulfed me in its warmth
then in the blue tainted light
reflection of a dim dark night
love turned its cheek cold
and walked away

she stood there
in the threshold of my door
her back to me as she halted time




fall back to the same obsession
let it take this world away
return to the same escape
feeling better through ignorance
until you wake up from sleeping in the cold

-pete