Otoliths -

Every day splits me in two

Make it three including you

Reaching outward for a place to step

With no regrets I find

Different faces every time

Your embrace occluding mine

Though you never meant to go

Just couldn’t stay I know why

Remove the sky

Remove the sky

To keep the sky from falling

Remove the sky

Remove the sky

To keep the sky from falling

Same obstruction on each side

Your retreat enables mine

I could never give you

Anything you didn’t have before

Are we lucky just to find

Something new to leave behind?

Sit and breathe in the exhausting trail

Of failure at no cost

Remove the sky

Remove the sky

To keep the sky from falling

Remove the sky

Remove the sky

To keep the sky from falling

I might have known

You’d grow these stones

Deep in your ears

I’ve watched your cells

Divide themselves

To build these cysts

These otoliths

I know what I know

I know what I know

Now that I know what I know that I know

How do I know that I know?

Remove the sky

Remove the sky

To keep the sky from falling

And fill your ears

With what you hear

From me but don’t believe

Where we exist in otoliths