Sandstone

He woke up in bed with

A fever of the head

The hallucinations spent on

Every empty moment

Between breaths and seconds

Between her legs and memories

Where her olive skin was poison and

Her dreams were of the ocean

We swam amidst the coral reefs

Ran between these wild trees

Whose arms kept grasping shadows and

Who painted us with her leaves

The ink of years above

Sea level, now our heads are

In trouble, cause the medicine is kicking in and

She couldn't imagine

My thoughts

As they went somewhere we'd never reached

A place in your eyes that we had

Never breached

And a quiet heart sits and

Reflects on all your innocent

Mistakes, these days we're firing into

The wake, lying amongst graves

Swearing we've never tasted

This bitter drink, this time sunk beneath

The beach, where everything is coming or going

Never staying longer than she could know me

In our bed of lightly-strung reeds

We're whistling in the wind

Every time we dream

Finding something farther away

Than the eye could ever see

I woke up in your bed with

A fever in my head and

A lover in my hands

And I sculpted a masterpiece

That left room only

For you and me

Carved a world into the side of this mountain

A fountain of youth next to it

To ensure the moment would never end

That when the sun reached down and brushed your cheek

I would be there with my cool moonlight

To soothe the burns you'd never seen

To prove the worth of all our dreams

I never spent a single cent

On forgetting, for what

Words would spill beyond the breach

Just to say

This touch could never be

Human, like me

This rush could never keep

Up with me, I will be

Your drug of choice, your quiet lover beyond the noise

Of reality, and you'll never forget

The years we buried in moments

The tears we spared in coming

To this ocean air keep

Where even the devil could be

As sweet as the moment you fell

At my feet.