You are far too fragile to exist

I didn't see the hand I'd never kiss

And I barely felt your heartbeat inside of me

The empty patter of your feet is too fast to see

The families all gather round

And they make some sympathetic sounds

Even though I know they're only trying to take my mind off it

I just wanna sit alone and cry myself into a fit

And fall asleep

I would have loved to watch you as you slept

I fill the frames of pictures that I kept

Of you leaping into action on some muddy football

field

Or holding the attraction of the one that makes you

feel so sick

And I choose to see the life I live

It's one of triumph and of joy that gives

Made of something to hold onto as I'm falling through myself

To the part of me that held you on the darkest shelf

inside me