Perihelion 1 - Andrew Osenga

Monday there was light and dark Wednesday trees began to reach toward the sky The sun and moon were new above the birds that framed the blue that found the Frid

I'm writing these words Jotting them down to get 'em all out To leave 'em behind me So tar behind me Here is my heart Clearing the air like somebody cares All a

You're next to me But sometimes when I speak I feel I'm lost at sea You're standing on the shore And all my words are shooting flares They're smoke signals Smok

I walked to school every day with a boy up the street Our mothers declared we were friends so it was to be He listed by number the girls he had kissed And how s

Today would be the perfect day to tell you goodbye But I've already said it Now You're just a memory a photograph a used-to-be Yeah yeah you get it Now I'm all

She was a goddess a beautiful Athena I bowed and I vowed nothing would come between us But she tell oil my pedestal She was human after all So I got angry and s

My head turns Heart leaps at every sound Keep thinking it's you coming back home But it's just the place settling Eyes red foggy head I just can't sleep now To

She was raised along the salty sea Nursed on hope and fairytales I was just as lonesome as could be My notebooks and no one else Then one day she caught my eye

That Summer night we ran Down to the lake and swam Under the moonlight Where you ruined all my plans You with your china skin Reached out and pulled me in I wan

They said that it would happen we weren't listening You were hanging on my words I felt you touching me That was all that mattered Then I got a new job we got a