Astronautics

I flood your veins like trenches
I am the astronaut in your bloodstream
my lips, galleons
as your skin becomes the pacific beneath me

as I watch the colors drain from your face and paint the floor in shades
paint the floor in shades

clutched to your hems with a newborns grip
paraplegic words are all I've left to auction
lips loose like a drunk man
poised as a poet
with all my etiquette orphaned

as I watch the colors drain from your face and paint the floor in shades
speak up
speak up and mean it
say your words and believe them

this house will fall with you

hope is a handicap

as I watch the colors drain from your face and paint the floor in shades
speak up
speak up and mean it
say your words and believe them

whoa
we were but upright animals