'Listen'

Your story is the face
I'm trying to read in the dark.
There is no turning back
from the path we're taking.

What you want is simple
but we're using all the wrong words.
I want to hold your face
what little of it that's true.

I want to lie to you
to be the hand of mercy.
I mean, we're in the same boat
it's dark, we're sinking

in the reflection of the moon.
Only one of us should drown.
I'll pretend to be the strong one
and hold your hands to my face---

one last story is all you need
to remember me by. I know
it's hard, I know you're tired.
But you have to leave.