Floors On Fire

from Spiral Bound Songs by Able Baker

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If I successfully kept a notebook froze those times
what we had would have looked worse on paper than in real life
much ado about that; we endured through the fall

Storm of the century crashed last year’s weekends well through March
so we burrowed in the basement in pillow forts keeping warm
littered with takeout, teacups, and proposed bedtimes unobserved
when we sat in bitter silence proved your will was a force to be reckoned with
now I dread every text; quiet brace for each call

Much ado about that; I’ll hold my breath for my Love
if I can’t keep that demand and who on Earth can? Bag it all
if your personal hell is a complex filled with crumbling stories
worth of your past earthly transgressions blurring

then some floors on fire for the feelings I can’t inspire
I know I’m a liar for ulterior ends can’t deny
some floors on fire for guilt that never quite seems to subside
I know I’m a pyre, torch all too familiar reams of my life
some floors on fire for the feelings I can’t inspire

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from Spiral Bound Songs, released February 12, 2021

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