Look upon me with softer eyes than jagged heart
though I anchored dreams in wakes-
no chance for them to fly,
I could sleep for decades and only start
easing the freezing pain of this goodbye.
It's you (or absence of) as the day slips and breaks
the night was heavy on me-
breathing bare dark air thin
it was time that revealed these our mistakes
if I'd the chance to do it all again
I'd not cast these anchors into the raging sea
where I sank a thousand leagues-
no more air, naught to say
freedom is my responsibility
look softly on me as I break away.