I'm Betting I'm Not A Safe Bet

Passion igniting the space around us

Just to keep hot air balloons ideas afloat

Pouring brackish atmosphere into our glass

Drained in a single sip

Strange the profound sorrow found

Being the only guest in an ethereal hotel

Someone managed to save me

A hold on my heart like a child's fist

Time swallows in the days that have went

Waking up to my alarm clock

My sun rising in the forgotten sky without a sound

Lost on the hopes of tainted wings

A fast food romance for the young and brooding

Slip beautifully into a west coast coma

Nursed with sand and ocean wounds

Can't a memory forget all of this

Those special words no one seems to know

Blood in my feet, my feet on the ground

Weightless I fly through whatever seems to matter

I can do without with these rain clouds I have found

But what am I to do

When what defines everything I am

Makes me crave a wooden, enclosed bed

I carve this question six feet down

If I'm alive should I try to breathe

When oxygen makes me drown?