Shadows Break

I try with gentle reason

Blow the corner of your eye

Try to move the creature

Deeply buried there

Watch you grow out long

Still

Gets really scared

Roll your tongue back out

Chasing the faeries

The one I love

With their perfect nose

Has their own set of keys

To a place I’ve really only heard of

Though my belongings are scattered ‘round the skirt of it

I accept, now

There’s no place on earth that fits

I see there’s no option for you to really choose me

So I seek out the only other lizard on earth who’s ever known me

And reality’s a shadow

I climb it like a ladder

Twisted

The forms this city takes

Once again with that gentle reason

Embark upon a pain

I’ve been forced to swallow so many words for

But the language erodes and

Unearths me more