A Comet Appears

One hand on this wily comet

Take a drink just to give me some weight

Some uber man I'd make

I'm barely a vapor

They shone a chlorine light on, a host of individual sins

Let's carve my agin' face off, fetch us a knife

Start with my eyes, down so the lines form a grimacing smile

Close your eyes to corral a virtue, is this fooling anyone else?

Never worked so long and hard to cement a failure

We can blow on our thumbs and posture

But the lonely are such delicate things

The wind from a wasp could blow them into the sea

With stones on their feet, lost to the light and the lovin' we need

Still to come

The worst part and you know it

There is a numbness

In your heart and it's growin'

With burnt sage and a forest of bygones

I click my heels, get the devils in line

A list of things I could lay the blame on

Might give me a way out

But with each turn, it's this front-and-center

Like a dart stuck square in your eye

Every post you can hitch your faith on

Is a pie in the sky, chock full of lies

A tool we devise to make sinkin' stones fly

And still to come

The worst part and you know it

There is a numbness

In your heart and it's growin'