My Brilliant Friend - Saint Sister

My brilliant friend

Traces where I should end

And where I should begin

And he touches me

With all of the need

And the want that goes on between us

Nobody knows

But wherever we go

He assures me I’m worthy of all of it

Sometimes we lie together

And we cry together

And we scream what’s the harm in it

My brilliant friend

And I always intended

To break up and take up again

I don’t have words

To describe all the worlds

That we make in our Cat Kingdom

He stopped the calls

Till the night of the fall

Now I phone him whenever I want

My brilliant friend

And I always intended to

Memories of him

Breaking into the gym

Thought we’d stay in these crutches forever

The mornings upset him

He tries to forget them

I remember for us both

My brilliant friend

Asked me never to send

Him music if that’s all I can give

My brilliant friend

Traces where I should end

And where