Fourteen

Friday evening
Streaming TV
Almost drift off
I close the screen
And try to sleep before your shift starts

You said it's peaceful
As you're breathing in your wristwatch
We're finding meaning for all these rituals
The tick-tock (tick... tock) (?)
And all our____ write some texts (?)

Sacred moments we've perfected
Give direction
Make a connection between the slip
And those mysteries that dared now our death (?)

I float
The snow drifts
Find it as if by precognition
Every ghost turned frozen
When the blizzard hit

Like a mystic
By some visit shown
And vision thrown
A pilgrimage
And went there
At home
You inside the kitchen sink

Into midnight in December
With the sensors smoking
And the streetlights in sending embers (?)
And each center goal (?)
And gold
Woven in the filaments of silver

When they're spilling from the ______(?)
And hold on to my mission
As I go... Out to the store for wine
Same route every time

My path in winter pasture
When fractures climate your bones (?)
And the cold then goes into remission
And a new skin slowly grows on the skeleton
The slowly sentient
Where I go
Shuffling slowly
And always penitently

My mission and it's sentence
My tried old testament thrown (?)
Shoulders _________ (?)
Inside an endless desert home
I know you're sitting alone
With your professor ____(?)
Play on that ____ to focus (?)
To take your ever-present home (?)

Color-coding your notes
Your written sacred scripture
It's like you may have fallen (?)
Your hieroglyphs
Your _____ (?)

Home and finally close
Where I'm approaching
In my old prints ghosted below (?)
And I can see you through the window frame
Pulling your hair and getting anxious

Climb the steps of your porch
Slide in through your door
And don't be frozen ____ (?)
Only one found crate of the wine
Let all your worry and your burdens all be mine
And be vanquished as I find
________________ (?)
Her eyes and her teens (?)
That have you awake with me each morning
In the nighttime
Fall asleep

(And tick tock)
(And tick tock)
(And we drift off)
(And we drift off)
(And we wake up)
(And we wake up)