Read Poem/Song: Five & One Half We Spun Around Our Sun, by Paul John Fletcher

VERSE 1

Love life besotted by you
Fun run swum with you
Smoke high hung with you
Dream fires food with you

Road fly adventure with you
Laugh live crime with you
Give everything betray for you
Fight forever lie die for you
Just to save you nobody else
Your body your smell
The sweet sweat on your lips
Morning hand on your hips
Waking close caressing your dips
Comfort and care
Never no time to spare

CHORUS

You were my one
My only one
Best of the best
Ripped heart out my chest

VERSE 2

Lost now to fear
Shocking tear
Sit and stare
Days weeks months
Too much to bare
Invisible pain
Daily strain
No weight gain
Fighting flat out
I see you about
Hide my love
But it’s easy to see
Heart churning
Swallow deep
Mourning loss and yearning
Entire being a hole
Vortex in my soul

Dark dusty existence
Salvation hanging
On your every word
Your indecision
Promise of hope
Numbingly I wait

I run away
But call to ask
Answers the same
Blood curdling drain
18 months pass
Nothing gets close
Utter morose

I phone again
Angry and sad
Beg to be glad
Shattered by words
World turns end over end
The line goes dead
Can’t go back instead
Shuddering and sick
Muscle spasms
Collapse in the dirt
An hour a minute
Want to die
No answer in I
All alone I cry
Grief of goodbye
Memories a lie

Need time to try
Fly fly fly
Pulling together
Whatever is left
Mojo lost
This is love’s cost
Lose time and identity
Over now
Adrift in the ocean
Heal me and seal me
Never again let it in
Love is a sin
To believe in

Years pass to hatred
Piece is missing
Tattered and burned
Never to return
Gone no trace
Sheild in place
Stupid optimism
New loves
New lifes
Move forward
Past gone
Only now

CHORUS

You were my one
My only one
Best of the best
Ripped heart out my chest

VERSE 3

Unconditional
You could do no wrong

Betrayed me bad
Of all we had
Naive to your ways
Cast to dog days

Earth won’t just rewind
Since you left me behind
Stole you my time
A most heinous crime

Away you fled
Fiance not wedd
Left me for dead
Mighty O’dread

Now I sing a very different song

Be lucky and happy
In grateful intent
Hurry no worry before
Time is spent