Elegy

I had to stop calling home, it's the loneliest phone line
A dial tone echoed like the drone of a flatline
There's no happily ever after to cosign
The last gasp of the love we had has now capsized
So lemme tell you where the mark of this lash lies
From the second we decided to slash ties
An open gash carved upon the path of our past lives
I ran the math - far too many moments had passed by
I should've known that without hope we would nose-dive
Too many red flags hanging out on those clotheslines
But through the rose-colored glass, I was so blind
My own eyes closed to my erosion of sunshine
We're once bitten, twice shy of a punchline
A hound that's outfoxed by an eminent vulpine
I guess we're minus a plus sign
A silhouette of smoke billowed out of a blown mind
So if this is the coda we codify
A record spinning out with us alone on our own sides
I'm going down with every melody memorized
Remembering the end as our own elegy notarized

And I suppose how the rhythm juxtaposes
The prose to the heart of the beat when time's frozen
It's slowest in the heat of those vibes and known moments
When thoughts cascade to emotions
Where do you go when your home has eroded?
In this cracked case the facts place our love as the motive
But now we backspace - the entwined and interwoven
Since we dove in the headlong rush, two fools hoping
We're stayin' open and growing to brighter omens
Although every light aglow throws shadows we haven't chosen
And I suppose now we know what we've awoken
But we Don't Speak - leaving No Doubt to what's unspoken
That's how it goes, the flow of the samsara
It's cyclical, from biblical births to sayonaras
We've bared shared scars like crowns and tiaras
In the end it's all love - no trauma could ever mar us

And you can never account for every factor
The premise of the test, every lesson comes after
And now the messaging is "let it go" faster
Close the book on every photographic Polaroid captured
So here's a toast to the closure of the chapter
The chalice overflowing that I'll raise up to the rafters
We champagne supernova'd the reactor
But once upon a moment its glow had us enraptured