Own it.

Hallelujah.

Saw you standing there, with your beer and your smirk.

"I am Jack's smirking revenge."

I am Jack's reflux pride.

I am always listening.

Walk away, too little too late

Always one answer or another

You ever wish you hadn't?

That's an interesting strategy.

Yes, believe it or not I have a strategy sometime

I have something resembling forethought.

I am Jack's heaving chest.

I saw it there in your eyes,

Felt it in your tight embrace.

heard it in your plaintive call.

Saw it in your intensity, your focus and release.

We all want exactly the same things,

It doesn't ever change much,

We never change much, you know.

Babies and serious illnesses change people, but otherwise we just don't change much.

Its only the very basic things that might or might not keep us together.

Together.

I hurt.

Apart.

Alone.

Hold still.

Comfort.

Hold still.

Hold me still.

Show me care, I hold my head up through the fog.

"I just want you to be ok."

Thank you for seeing through to what's real,

I didn't imagine you at all.

I need to go.

Gotta run, gotta hide

Breathing harsh more than ever

Straight and narrow, clouded with regret and loneliness

None of this makes any sense anymore.

I am Jack's bottled heat.

I am my blurry eyes, my reddened skin, my shining scar.

I am my accident, your pity, my selfish judgement.