words by dominic riccitello

in your lies on sheets
of defining moments
i used to become
in waves at night
to tango with you 
sway with time like rhymes on edge
songs i used to sing before falling from your bed
on knees at night like shadows before echoes
in scream i call for you and i
to become instead of be
rhyme instead of free my mind from you before i
like quiet nights, men like knights
stealing ideas from fairytales we only dream of
in essence i fight for—
 
yet i lay in tune
in sullen hues
purple from windows i used to dream from
which fades to blue and pinks and hey’s
from bathrooms with doors ajar
like jars of your coffee beans on tuesday morning
i reminse on men i used to love
because love is what it was
but not what it’s now
and we’re all too busy living in the past
to realize it was then
this is now
and i call for you from years ago
but do you come running
no
because life moves on and so do i
we no longer use we for i
and this song is shut
like your eyes at night
you and i
we quite never made sense
but that was the beauty
of how it all ends
and light comes in