diff --git a/content/songs_to_the_stone/hair.md b/content/songs_to_the_stone/hair.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..87a58e65 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/songs_to_the_stone/hair.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +title: "Hair" +created_at: 2022-10-08 +tags: ['song'] +--- + +The last night we spent together
+I saw a hair of yours on the floor
+I could spell its color and knew who it belonged to
+And that was presence and I was happy
+In all the misery we shrouded ourselves into. + +When you were gone
+From this latitude, from this life
+I couldn't muster the courage to clean my home
+I couldn't think of taking what was left of you
+Away from what little was left of me. + +Days went by.
+The hair was tangled with dust
+And I noticed there were more
+I picked one up, straightened it in my hands
+Distrustful I put it under my nose in the pointless hope
+Of catching a faint whiff of that scent that had anointed me but a few days before.
+There was none. I couldn't believe it. + +One day I cleaned the floor. With a heavy heart
+I let go of those last dead pieces of us.
+I was mistaken.
+There were more
+Surviving the vacuum
+Entangled in the textiles of the couch
+Hidden in a crease on the side of the bed
+Shorter, longer, all bearing the color of your mane
+With variations
+So different from mine. No one
+Has entered this house ever since. The memory of you
+Just doesn't want to go away
+And I want it to stay. I want it to stay.