Ramani

we're breaking and i can feel it

you're holding on by your teeth

i'm trying to fix this with my hands

but my fingers are slipping and your teeth are cracking

and its ruining us

and its breaking us

you were at my side always but

we were together always but

i was there for you always but

there is none of that anymore

there never can be

not with my slipping fingers

not with your cracking teeth

we can't fix this and we can't fix this and we can't fix us

because i'm tired of falling off the edge and climbing back up only to fall back down and get hurt

again and again and again

always again

i know you're tired too because

we couldn't make us work but we were right for each other and i still know you and every inch of you

and your mind and i can see your bruises

here and here and here

so i won't cover up your cracking teeth again

if you don't try to hold my slipping fingers again

and maybe we can start over

build something new

not a new us but a new you and me

one where if we fall we won't get hurt

because we'll still have each other but someone else to catch us

again and again and again