Never caught in the searchlights
Of anybody else's life
That's why you stay,

That's why I won't say:
"you don't fit in elsewhere anyway babe"


It's a big stretch
Into nothingness
Tracing for something else

Something that doesn't hurt
Or stain your heart
Never mentioned in kind words

But oh, so often heard
Not even dwarfed
By our helplessness


In a garbage filled apartment
Where all your time got spent

And the smell from decades away
Couldn't help you around the bend


It's a big stretch
Into nothingness
Not slowed down

By our littleness