Facing New York

You Might Not Feel It At All

Facing New York


Doesn't talk much, enters unnoticed by me 
like a vapor drifting through the assembly 
watching others, let down he is removed 
from the masses, knowing not what else to do 

he reaches out to her like wind when summer calls 
don't change the temperature you might not feel it at all 

he writes music and notes roll off of his tongue 
like water, thick compared to the blood 
of an artist afraid to look at himself, 
in the mirror to see if anything is left 
and she wants to feel his heartbeat again 
but it's hopeless, a ghost, no longer a man 

(the whispering you can figure out for fun)