The Tragedies of a Lonely Dreamer

Take Me Away

And here I am, and I don't know what to say.

I curse at the breeze as it threads through my hair.

Take me away.

It's cold out tonight and I forgot my coat.

The days grow colder still, but summer should have been here long ago.

I'm standing up on this arching field of grass.

I reach for the sky.

Take me away.

I want to leave the place I call home.

I want to forget who I was.

Here on this hill I bury my thoughts in the ground.

Stamp on the ground.

Beat the ground.

Burn the ground.

And then I leave the ground.

Take me away.

It's not possible that I'm a human anymore.

I can't even feel the turf under my bare feet.

I've forgotten how to love the sunsets that climb over my head repeatedly.

I'm calling out to the robins.

I'm telling the sweet birds to forgive me, and yet I expect nothing.

Take me away.

I found a finch dead on the ground.

I'm sure that it was because of me.

I'm sure she had a husband and kids ready to fly for the first time.

I found an empty nest beside the tree she laid beside.

I can't bear to look at her.

Take me away.

I found a rabbit with gray fur, shimmering blue under the bronze sun.

The rabbit didn't look from around here, but I'm sure he had a tough life.

The rabbit had scars on its belly and was missing an ear.

The rabbit looked lonely as it tucked it's face under the brush.

I couldn't help but imagine how I could have saved that rabbit.

Take me away.

I found a fawn in the trunk of a rotting tree.

It looked young and plump, like it had been living the life.

It's legs were broken and its face turned away.

It looked away like she was ashamed of me.

An apology mutters past my lips.

Take me away.

I buried the rabbit myself.

I put the bird in the nest.

I set the fawn inside a burrow.

I still couldn't figure out why they died, but I know I could have done something.

Take me away.

It's cold tonight.

The sun is set.

Summer still isn't here.

And I forgot my coat.