Dendron

You cut your ties

Felt better off

Salutations to your son

Awoke to find

You heading out

With your white collar undone

You placed a bar

I played a game

To see how low that I could go

We develop mental pictures

And we’re following our fathers down the drain

Do you recall

The imagery

From when I drove you away?

Through others’ rose

Prescription lens

Man, I’m sorry every day

Because we intersect

Internally

And then we take what we have and we run

And it all starts to unravel

Until we’re less than we were carrying before

Guess I expected more

Wake me, wake me up

(Pictures of you smiling in times When I just couldn’t be around)

Hold me, hold me up

(Count my rings to see how many winters)

(I’ve been stuck here under ground)

Swore I’d not burn out

(Digging through the memories)

(That made you feel alive when you were young)

You were right to doubt

(Broken since foundations)

(In the structures you were building came undone)

Part of your charm

Was the way

You would push me from

All of the traps

That I just couldn’t see

Figures the one

That was there

To have tripped you up

Would be the one

That was set there by me

Wish I was there

To say goodbye

When you went away

Wish I was home

Oh, but noplace was there

Cut off my arm

At the bone

In solidarity

Capital teaches

That there’s less when you share

And I felt the noose

Tighten up on your collar bone

And I felt the gun

In the small of your back

Engraved in the stone

By request

And recurse of friends dead

Is, “Tell me again that it’s all in my head”