A Promise to Keep

Abandon comes on at every pace
Your looks that cut through stomachs of lace
Kiss the trees of gold disease you can only watch
The window melts and your breathe of strings off the top
To wonder why the world goes silent while you sleep
Cocooned in twilight rooms with things I could never keep
Whatever murmurs first will move my mouth
And hands the color of one's lips
The fading painted across your voice and fingertips
I wish I knew just half those words you talk about

To wonder why the world goes silent while you sleep
Cocooned in twilight rooms with shapes of wings I've found to bleed
I'll never ask what you meant I'll let you leave
Scratched across my arm in blue a promise to keep