You've got a warm heart
You've got a beautiful brain but
It's disintegrating...


When you met me, I hid behind tinted glasses

that I still have, over-sized and

probably back in fashion.


You remember I kept them on during lunch

in a dark restaurant, when I met you.


When you met me, I painted my fingernails

and wore make-up, although my clothes were

simple, streaked with dried clay or

my daughter's small, fading, fingerpainted handprints.


You've got a soft heart that

is slowing down says the doctor.

We didn't know our marriage

would be so unpredictable;


when you met me, when I met you.

We've had our share of both amazing and awful times,

but now is different.


I tell you it's the disease or the medicine

and you trust me, falling asleep for the night after

watching Dora the Explorer, after happily eating

a Klondike bar, your clothes on, above the comforter.


In silence, I sobbed, seeing the holes

in the heel of one of your brown socks.


lyrics Daughter 168

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