sink sank sunk

oh
there you are.

i had lost myself for
(it felt like quite a while at the time)
almost a whole year.

things like that happen in
quick tides, quick sand comes
up at your ankles
an ocean of
papers and academia,
ideas are always asking
for proof and why.

i dove into that
like a swimming fool
just like i dove into you.

oh, i lost myself again
for a weekend for
seventy-two
hours. it's enough
to drive someone crazy,
it's like staying up for three
days hopped up on coca-cola
coke made of coke
and coca cola,
all to appease the
high top kids
and get weepy for nothing.

but wind was blowing
from the californian wild
fires and they dried up
the lake you were made of.
it only burned for a second and
now
i'm free to breathe again.

its ok
you never trapped me,
winter is slow coming this year
slower than the fires.

dont get cold and frozen,
burn up quick.
did the ship sink when we last kissed?