The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Something old that I enjoyed at the time so I figured, to hell with it, why not?

We all knew how to swim

But I suppose it was much easier to sink

Let go of everything and watch the light escape from our eyes

Detach ourselves from feeling

For to forget to love is to die

And that's what we've craved, right?

We burn through herbs as to melt our minds

Bend the very fabric of space and time

Or so it felt that way

Slowing and twisting as we watched our lives slip from our lips

The weeds in the sidewalk

Misplaced and unwanted

He bought new paints

Hoping to bring colour to his life again

She read old books

Believing that she'd be taken away

Colour never seemed so dull

And those same four walls never seemed so painfully familiar

We are lost at opposite ends of the ocean

Pushing senselessly through currents so strong

Maybe the timing is off but I need you to know that you are loved

And though you may sink, in my eyes, you will never be judged

For I am a stone; unable to float

But sometimes we let the waters do what they must and consume us

Allow our lungs to fill

Gasping for air only to take in more bitter water
Vision will blur and senses will dull

Minds break and ribs crack

We are the same you and I
But you make color radiate and I am a man of gray scale