A Parting - Wilsen

I moved to this heavy-eyed hood

Where silence follows me down the stairs

To sink into the holes in the floor

And sigh up through the walls

At dark he wraps his limbs around me

‘Cause I go missing in my sleep

Just near enough to count our breaths

But it’s like we’ve never met

Both an arms length apart

Human take me in

Flat is the sky in the lateness

A parting is all that I’ve earned

Hunting pulses just to pull on them

Thinking I think is the problem

Both an arms length apart

We’re an arms length apart

We’re at the lowest of lows

Let’s see how far our minds can go

Don’t we lie so well

We could lie here for days

But is this living or hiding

Make me stay

An arms length apart

An arms length apart