Come and Find Me

if i could trace the line that ran

between your smile and your sleight of hand

i’d guess that you put something up my sleeve

now every time i see your face, the bells ring in a far-off place

we can find each other this way, i believe.

 

from the hills and up behind my town

is naked from the horizon down .. the curvature is pressed against the raise

and we walked up in the fields alone

and the silence fell just like a stone that got lost in the wild blue and the gravel grey

 

come and find me now

 

though i’m here in this far off place,

my air is not this time and space

i draw you close with every breath

you don’t know it’s right until it’s wrong

You don’t know it’s yours until it’s gone

i didn’t know that it was home ‘til you up and left

 

come and find me now

 

i keep you in a flower vase

with your fatalism and crooked face

with the daisies and the violet brocades

and I keep me in a vacant lot

in the ivies, forget-me-nots

hoping you will come and untangle me one of these days

 

come and find me now

 

- Josh Ritter

Done