they didn’t
they lied
the sun would burn brighter
and mornings would sail along
like a great enveloping soul
they said that
nights would erupt with fire and
the moon would sing me to sleep
and my dreams would be delicacies to savor
forevermore
they said that
or something like it
they implied it
what they didn’t tell me
what they didn’t say
is that when you have a reason
not to be sober
that reason just sleeps
it sleeps for as long as you can take it
but then once you can’t
it wakes back up
and there you are
in a dark and quiet room
with a broken leg and no crutch
and god it’s menacing
teeth and
fangs and all
still there
waiting…
they never told me about that part
nobody told me that getting sober
is the easy part
when you had a pretty good fucking reason
to be
drunk.
it doesn’t get easier
they lied to me
but god
those mornings
that sail forever
and god
those nights
that erupt with fire
it sure sounds nice
so maybe
if I stare right back at my reason
and bare my teeth
fangs and all
maybe one day
that room won’t be so dark
and that reason won’t be so scary
anymore.
and I’ll look up to a ceiling
that’s no longer there
and the moon
will sing
for the both of us
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