Do you know?

Do you know what it feels like,
To realize too late what you wanted to say?
To play it again in your head,
Like a scene from the dead?
Do you know what it feels like,
To wish on a star?
You could gather the pieces,
Of your shattered dream
Or hold it together with a neatly sewn seam?
Do you know what it feels like,
To realize too late?
That the moments you spent
Were not memories you leant?
Do you know what it feels like,
To stand at the door?
And watch him walk away,
His bag on his shoulder
And your heart in it’s fold?
Tell me...
Do you know?

Lyric

I stare at the ghost in the mirror
& it stares right back
at me;
Guant & pale & eyes ringed a gunmetal
Blue...
Measuring my life with the ope & shut of
mine eyes;
A sleep walker trapped in time
Reigning in vagrant dreams
& songs my errant heart
does sing;
Of a time & place
& a man I once held…
Bearing an echo of him on my shoulder,
A tattooed claim to what used to be
Now my life’s
a lyric;
With a midnight kiss for
a chorus
Sung from the bottom
of a cup
Of coffee…