Dead Ends - Canines

Shivering

I am looking in at

People that I call my friends

Just a sillhouette

With a cigarette

And no idea who I am

There were songs in these eyes

But now they’re gone

If only I had held the light in

Flashing teeth

They are smiling

So happy to burn through their time

And I don’t know when

But I lost the will to savor mine

Now they’re all

Stumbling to some other house

Though I’ve tried I can’t find any interest now

It takes

The guilt of just a small mistake

To puncture the joy

So its poisoned by doubt

I just wanted to face the expanse

But those dead ends have come to haunt me

I had tried to understand

How I should operate this body

And I was sure, but I was wrong

If only I had held the light in

The darkness would be gone