Ann Liv Young - Gatherers

You are a picture of a room with no people in it

And there is rot behind the walls

And the bulbs have long died out

You are a moment in my mind, played out in perfect harmony

But the needle misaligns and your words never quite add up

Small talk with no recollection of the ones you’ve lost

A letterhead without a name

The buzzing of the vacancy sign, sings until you’re comatose

An empty bed pressed with your silhouette and tessellated accidents

(Unwinding, unwinding)

A circle on a map with no address, a tear in you that widens in degrees

(Unwinding, unwinding)

But I digress, I digress, I digress

(Unwinding, unwinding)

Please, forget me

Oh you’re a mess I’m can not mend

And I’m running out of thread

Now we’re fading by the law of diminishing regrets

Nothing brings you back

You’re a date and time I penned on the inside of my hand

Too weathered to make sense of

Forget me