more diamonds than pearls.
more starlet than wife.
more volatile than calm.
more peroxide than twinsets.
im awake too early.
you couldn’t sleep last night, so you woke me up, needing me to calm you down. you had worked yourself into a panic so i made the right sounds and talked you down from the ledge in your mind until we both drifted off.
now i’ve stirred and i can’t sleep. i lay next to you in silence, waiting for the sun to rise. i guess it’s symbolic of the little inconsistencies in the way we live. you expect to be cared for, i am expected to care. it doesn’t often bother me, most times i am happy to give.
but sometimes i want to be carried too.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY