Words that escaped

Melancholy

I'm melancholic

a borderline alcoholic.

I'm dazed, I always am.

Sing your lullaby,

I can't sleep again.

Shut my eyes with your palm,

I know I'm shaking again,

But I promise I'm calm.

I love you, you know I do.

Yet you hold me

a little too tight.

Honey, I think it's all right

for us to fight all night

and make love by dawn.

Hold me now,

my spirits hang low.

I want you to stroke my hair,

breaths on my neck

a confirmation you're there, although

I hear no lullaby

I feel no touch

Baby, where are you

please

I'm shaking too much.

My whispers walk away

away into the light

It's been years, it's been so long

Again, I sleep alone tonight.