Hospice

I wish that I had known in that first minute we met, The unpayable debt that I owed you. Because you'd been abused by that bone that refused you, And you hired me to make up for that. Walking in that room when you had tubes in your arms, Those singin

In a nightmare, I am falling from the ceiling into bed beside you You're asleep, I'm screaming, shoving you to try to wake you up And like before, you've got no interest in the life you live when you're awake Your dreams still follow storylines, like

There's a bear inside your stomach The cub's been kicking from within He's loud, though without vocal chords We'll put an end to him We'll make all the right appointments No one ever has to know And then tomorrow I'll turn 21 We'll script another sho

In the middle of the night I was sleeping sitting up When a doctor came to tell me, "Enough is enough" He brought me out into the hall (I could have sworn it was haunted) And told me something that I didn't know that I wanted to hear: That there