Red Wine

Breath smells like red wine and cigarettes
Sliding doors, midnight strolls, place your bets
Disappear like smoke in rain change your mind
Coffees out, walls down, and words confined

Cards down, when were you ever around
Ace of spades, good old days on the campground
Fireplaces don’t create good atmospheres
Nature takes, bones break, I’ll stay out of here

Did you know I could hear those old phone calls
Sad strangers, what a danger, when night falls
On the table were the bills you should’ve paid
Laid decrepit, never read it, gave a second glance

It’s a lost cause never found my way out of the labyrinth
Stones unturned let your feelings burn, never stop badgering
Three of a kind those last words left behind
Undermine-
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ellenb

NY

YWP Alumni

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