an excuse to stay
Posted on: January 17, 2009, at 04:31:27pm

oh, captain
my dear captain
why do i feel
as if i've let you down?

how you tip your head
how your eyes wrap around my shoulders
i know you know
but i don't know what you think,
as you do me

oh, nameless
believe me, i know your name
you've been burned into my memory
you are different to me
and i can't breathe a word
please accept my smile, my laughter
as a kind word, a thought to you

then, quick
cast your eyes away
before their pleasant darkness
sweeps me out to sea