I'M In Love With A Girl. Poem by Lauren Becker

Hold fast & don't slip away
I'll hold you close under the police lights
I'll kiss you in the light of the sirens
We'll watch the whole world decay
In this suburb of New Orleans

Take your feeble hand in mine
We'll walk from this bonfire for the last time
I left my inhibitions in those cop cars
I left my ambitions behind those jailhouse bars

We race through this tired city with the windows down
Our love is too big for this silent town
I feel in the dark for your angel face
I whisper 'I love you' in this drunken state

Today, I'll step out of the spotlight
I'll smoke my last cigarette, underneath this blacklight
Leaving those backseat days behind in the daylight
I'll never forget your eyes that night

In those days where the world made sense
With shorts drives going nowhere at the world's expense
Tonight I'll take my sleeping pill that's coma white
I'll drug myself into forgetting the look on your face that night