Miss October

To all that's safe, our memories

Our justified angst

So consumed with no escape

Just time to wait

Bury our distress to console

Isolated, we let out self denial

A faint memory of a fall left black

Only three words left to say:

I fail you

I'll pay my respects with what I have left

We're so close to home, yet we're falling apart at the seams

And memories guiding us to sleep

Call your name

It's been so long

It falls on deaf ears

Tragic failed attempt at redemption

Photographs discarded, re-emerge

Only to throw me deeper still

Into remorse and regress, two years ago

And these familiar places are becoming foreign

Nothing is safe, not memories or visions of you

So confused with no escape

Only three words left to say:

I fail you

Guiding us to sleep...