NOUGHTS AND EXES

taking your time you forget the race,
forfeit the feast for an idle taste
steeped in distraction, you’re easily drawn from the line
and you find that you go for second best
take what you want, don’t forget to pay,
the charges are steep though collected late
do what you please if it puts you at ease,
for a time, then you find that it goes

this is where it falls apart

Tracing your lines you recall regrets.
Gentle’s your fall though a steep descent
A slave to your sorrow, you long for tomorrow
but all that you find is today

this is where you fall apart
this is where I call you out

I said I’d never leave your side
In the darkness, from my sight you hide
if you fall, I’ll fall to pick you up
I’d gladly take it all I’d gladly take it all
this is where I fall apart