The Take Off and Landing of Everything - elbow

You have the time worn shimmer of tarantella on a Tuscan plain

Patiently listen as dull reminiscences fall from my jaws in a jumble again

You hold a lamp in my slumber

I resurface just to do a new number on you

You kiss the wrist of the hand that has twisted itself all into your hair

You close the blinds and doors behind me and clear all obstacles

on the stair

You are an open book

I’m on the bathroom floor

Yours is an open door

I’m throwing ballast overboard

You are a genius teetering

Hurricane wild be calm as the deep

Every living thing needs watering

I miss loving you

Actually loving you

Words on my bedroom wall

Speak of my stone cold care

A prayer to the take off and landing of everything

Leaving your lips as we took to the sky

And a prayer to the take off and landing of everything

I’ll say for you and I will for all time

Wrote on my bedroom wall

Spoke of your deep true care

Over my shoulder and just as I leave

I see you slipping the world up your sleeve

Well take it and run

Go on

Go on

That’s why it’s there

In a prayer to the take off and landing of everything good