Desperate Vespers

When you come home from the hospital
Let me be the first to welcome you
Arms outstretched, holding my sincerest apology
I’ve been waiting to tell you
All the things I was too scared to say before
How your smile wears me out, how I’m better off having known you
And I will never take you for granted
And I will never take you for granted
Come back
Come back to us
Please get better
I want you to smother me
Close enough to feel your weight crashing in to me
Feel the air getting warmer
Come back to us
Come back to us
I long for the time when ships would fill the harbor
Come back
Come back
Come back
Come back
Tonight, of you and I, walking these streets, dark, after the lights go out