i'm comin back to the country;
head-in-hands, gift-wrapped inside.
red warning signage erected
on the shoreline; to keep you inside.

"noone stays forever;
& i know that the day is long.
but we can go anywhere -- anytime!";
well, i'll take my time.

you said im the one for the job now;
well, here i am now! what's the gig?
i travelled across the world to look for you.
(if the world was my backyard...
& the street across from my backyard...)
i'm waking up inside a graveyard.
i tunnelled in from across the pond!
how they mischaracterized my inflections;
with no discretions to myself.

"noone stays forever;
& i know that the day is long.
but we can go anywhere -- anytime!"
well, i'll take my time.

now i'm square-one'd & useless;
spread across the messy sheets.
can you take me away from myself?
from all the wreckage, this waste we call home.