Half

Filler
A bag of air for you to swallow
Let the stale fill your lungs
Inhaling the taste of a memory
Meant to be
 
Fire, fire
I'm on fire
 
Burning in the wasted land of nevers
Together split apart into your half

But not mine

Ember smothered by ashes
Choked by second chances
Just blowing smoke
Clinging to fabric running from
The mess I am
 
Remember when- instead of nothing- you looked back
Remember that?
 
Wall, wall, wall
 
But walls crumble and then fall
Man made impossibility
Quicksand sinks  
Let me flee
Dusted over before time passed
Sheltered under a leaking roof
Paper boy's tells us we never made the front news
Like the distance between us doesn't feel like a crack between tectonic plates
To anybody but the other half
 
I never got back
 
Liar, liar
You're the liar
 
Tipping the scales to never quite sure
You're in the jail cell
But I'm the one wearing handcuffs
Weren't me sorrys enough
Maybe they were just empty
 
Just filler
 
Sit still,
 
Stiller,  
 
Stiller
 
My heart's killer
Mask on your face
Twisted sessions I can't erase
Can't replace
Farther and farther
Distance makes everything darker

You're the beat
I'm the dancer

Drive by I can't catch
Blurring
Smudge prints on the artist's teeth
Biting down where the canvas bleeds
Shuffle forward
Jumping back
 
AttackAttack
You're the atomic bomb
The train off its track

I'm the draft from the window
The white gone black
 
The other half