Everywhere Break

I'm late

Half-sheltering from rain in a doorway

I send a text coz I'm scared to ring the bell

It's a crammed kitchen

Fingers fidget

You knock over a tin

I grin

Your voice cuts through the noises of men-children, drunk

An hour goes

Or three

Till a tricky-coz-it's-windy canal-side kiss

We shiver

The moonshine, ripe, drops us a sliver

I find a dream in you

Looking slick

Cracking face-paint dressed in blue ripped tracksuits

Frays draped over broken-in black shoes

Our late-morning palavering starts pulling on heartstrings

I don't know where this goes

But I want to start asking

Coz my imaginary friends give me strength in numbers

So if you ever feel you're going under

I will kiss you

Everywhere

I will kiss you

Everywhere

I will kiss you

Everywhere

(It's all easy)

(It's so easy)

(Calm down)

It's brighter in spring

And then you're gone

Summer let's on how badly we read it wrong

Autumn is boredom

And winter comes along

We never say goodbye

Don't know why

But I just sort of stand there and watch everywhere break

I face the sun but the shadows still fall in front of me

I'm trying to be lovely

But it's fun to be ugly

I will kiss you

Everywhere

I will kiss you

Everywhere

I will kiss you

Everywhere

And that's kind of it

My memory of you

Splintering

Into tinctures

A thousand drops burred bright

Falling across the beams of a needling streetlight

Ah forget it