I’ve been waking up drenched in sweat
longing for the palms on my neck
I’ve been walking through your maze
Soaked in a lonely daze
I met you downtown when you said
You’d never leave the side of my bed
Screaming by the water
I’ll never be one of your daughters
Promising you’d give me anything I’d wanted
when thinking I had it all sorted.
Kept my head clenched in your hands
kept me trusting we might be friends.
I’ve been falling awake
waking asleep
fingers drip
last time we met
gave me all I wanted to get
picture perfect glass vase kept
controlled, contained, ideal, I let
myself be a part
playing part
doing right
as you wish
you wish
I swish
out
I snap
I break
Under covers
Of your palms
On my neck
