Traveling with a Loved One

Techno beats ricochet off these hardwoods
in these hundred year old walls they bounce
off of you and then back to me. I'm back to you
and then back to me. I have a proclivity to the numbness
as it surrounds you with the smoke. I can feel it's energy
passing to you and back to me and to you and back to me.
My thoughts run existentially, yet through a tunnel. I leave
my focus on a loop. Focusing on you and then back to me.
I am back to you and then back to me. I have never felt sobriety
as fervently as when we are in the realm of its enemy.
Surely this is meditation, medication. You pass to me
and then it is back to you. And I'm back to you
and you're back to me.

When You Sleep

You smile when you sleep
Push the world from you and me
When I leave you in the morning
My love grazes on your cheek
Yeah, you smile in your sleep
Surrounded by your honest
I release your hand from mine
But I leave you with my promise
Why do you smile when you sleep?
I have tried to understand
The world sets out to burn
And you're there holding out a hand
I've seen you smile in your sleep
And I've spoken of a promise
That you may continue on this journey
A gilded world, one that's flawless
You smile when you sleep