Step Outside

Step outside
 This hasn't happened in a too-long time
 A new warm wind has pulled your soul from mine
 Disintegrating into green
 Fields of flies
 They wave their wire wings against my thighs
 My eyelids, weapons against all un-kinds
 It makes me wonder where you've been
 Through the pines
 Across the coast
 Chase the ocean-line
 My toes are tapping
 As your words unwind
 I've stayed exactly where I stand
 And when we stop
 It feels as though
 We're rolling backwards
 Down the road
 When I'm still
 My chest implodes
 My eyes rolled backwards
 Rolling backwards
 Back inside
 I study miles of atlas pages
 Blind
 My cells are stirring
 And I've made my mind up
 To go down the lane, again
 Let me lie
 Against your shoulder
 In the desert night
 Beneath the boulder
 Of an old test site
 And try to ask me where I've been
 I remind you
 Of the story of the sailor's bride
 Who finally stole the boat
 And rode the tide
 Into the welcoming ocean
 And when she stopped
 It felt as though
 The seas had swallowed
 Her ankles
 When I'm still
 I feel just so
 Rolling backwards
 I'm rolling backwards
 When we stop
 It feels as though
 We're rolling backwards
 Down the road
 When I'm still
 My chest implodes
 Rolling backwards
 I'm rolling backwards
 When we stop
 It feels as though
 We're rolling backwards
 Down the road