mirror mirror, flower on the wall

We were fucking hot in the mirror.
I caught sight of me in your eyes.
I wondered if I was safe in here.
Saw a bad kind of lie.
And I wondered whose.

Next thing I knew.
I was a whisker away from losing my voice
Your breath going going gone, lung by lung
Like a ghost-snatched yawn

Our sweet specter
My dear child who we choked and stayed
Oh god, what have we done?
Where have her pieces gone?
Did you say fault?
Must (can't!) be mine

It’s not yours sweetheart
I swear it to you
Mom and dad just had a falling out
Like all grown ups do

I’m sorry! I’m sorry!
I shouldn’t have looked!
(I can't breathe again)
We’ll be okay, we’ll be okay
(Ok, I can hold out til our shakings through)

Strip me flat
Mark me from your eyes
"It’s better this way"
Tell me any switch laded lie
I swear I’ll get you out of here

What happened today?
My tongue, blindsided
Wasn't it just yesterday?
She said bark like a dog
(Is that what you expect of me?)

Scrub the oven a shiny patch
An hour for our wall flower
Sweep me off my dancing toes
Hit my head on your windowsill

Please god, when’s our next hand hug
What happened to what we used to wear
Where’s the back door back to home?
She doesn’t see me anywhere anymore

You’re one to talk
Have you ever met your form?
How’d you make me go missing?
I didn't even notice
I see that we are home
Where the airs been spent.

Home?
Pray tell
In what kind of home
Do we breathe like this?

Smoking out our lungs
Without a god fucking question
Riffing off reruns
Snorting off lines tik tok’d
Like you never meant it

With holding love heavy
I’m the crowned king
Shoot me in the foot, love
Ignore the quiver in our child’s brave face

Don’t lie, she has our eyes
You kissed me back
You felt the snow storm ache
You think she hasn't found us yet?

Mirror, mirror
Flint stone on the window sill
Lay us out flat iron bare
This isn’t working at all
"Cried her stare"

No, this was never about you or me
We’ve just forgotten
What it means
To fuck and to breathe