The beat yearns to go on but the drummer is gone
I have said your name over and over
Until it became a mystery
Melting into the air
There's nothing left but a conflation of smiles
Perhaps the white heat of the eternal summer here
Burned everything into chalk
Don't explain, for I'll forget
Explain and I'll still choose to forget
Because we cannot stay long on this broken bridge
The truth is you are best loved
As memorable absence
Your best feature will be a blank slate
Already you have become one
With the people at the pier
Part of a dotted pattern shrinking
As an ocean expands between us
You call to me and I answer in a drone
Like a well-trained bureaucrat
Forgive me, my promises were written in chalk