The More the Merrier

The brain Expands
To burst the skull
The heart grows only
To suddenly end it's
Desperate Work
The lungs expand just
To deflate and eventually
Become apathetic from all the
Cigarrettes sucked down
Over the span of a lifetime

The scab grows larger, the more you keep picking
The more palaces the soldiers destroy, the more they must rebuild
The longer the corpse is hidden
In the still cool water
The more vile the perfume appears
In the nostrils of the patrons
In the old church next door

The more I love you
And the more I struggle to let you see
All of these sideways feelings
That have developed from all of these
Longing hours together, apart....

The farther away you go.