Eulogy

skeletal / you barely resemble
someone I once knew / someone alive

silent and sinking
you are a shadow / you are a memory
the schoolyard smile and a funny haircut
wide eyes and a Star Wars t-shirt

bone dry / exhausted
bloodshot and shivering
you are a stranger / you are a story
of friendship and skateboards
of side streets and dirt
of cold shoulders and tortured mornings
of innocence gone terminal
and emptiness unfilled

the Novocain vices / all the sterile careers
they can't save you and neither can I
you walk backwards through your buried dreams
arms open and tumbling down
I'll met you in the place
where money doesn't matter
where our minds don't conspire against us

find your way home