Glasses

Shed the days like skin

Pray for evenings in

Hold their hands in the street when you walk them off to school

A box too full to shut

Cardboard paper cut

Bleeding edge of a picture of your parents when they were cool

So much to say

I forget to start

There goes a day fading as it passes

Forget the grey let it fall apart

It's okay

I like you in glasses

Shovels in the sand

A playdough wedding band

A drowning princess in a tangle of towels on the floor

An old familiar ache

The little pills we take

The thoughtless kindness of a coffee cup waiting by the door

So much to say

I forget to start

There goes a day fading as it passes

Forget the grey let it fall apart

It's okay

It's on the board

Someone's been double booking

I've got time

How is your next week looking

House shifts into place

A little breathing space

The radiators and the floorboards will argue while we sleep

There's water in the walls

The stairs make waterfalls

Down in the basement the soft sound of a river digging deep

So much to say

I forget to start

There goes a day fading as it passes

Forget the grey let it fall apart

So much to say

I forget to start

There goes a day fading as it passes

Forget the grey let it fall apart

It's okay

I like you in glasses