Vagabond

Your mouth tastes like
Complete surrender
Pretending to cry
Doesn’t pay anymore

This body still twists
Just more slowly
Empty corners of concrete
Will make you smile

Inches away, too unsettling
How far you’ve gone, dear
Is not enough, never enough
Straight to the edge, then over it

You were that fallen angel
I dreamt of so long ago
But you cut off your wings
Buried your halo down deep

Die on the sidewalk for me
At least a little bit more
Where you sleep tonight
Could be a resting place tomorrow

Your eyes look like
You don’t remember
Pretending to live
Doesn’t pay anymore