Memories

[akhtar]

Going from port to port
Trying to get along
Always falling short
Only wanting to belong

Vinyl ballads from noon to moon
Remorse slaps on the face
Haggling with what has gone
Oh, to have your embrace

Hiking to your heart
Returning to the scene
First love, me making art
Liaisons behind charcoal screen

Was on the ladder to a promise
Shirking heart of one
Swaying from eternal kisses
Like a whistle
Echoing in the meadow
Always saying slow
Knowing I had to go

[mushy]

where did you go?
i wondered
why a no show?
you plundered?!?
my heart
then left me behind

how do i know?
i asked
where i should go?
you unmasked
your true self
and left me alone