The Neon Lonely - A Poem

Hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my hands are shaking

And I'm scared I'm gonna let go so

Don't let go no

Cradle me

When I am weak

Don't let go this is all that I need

So hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my knuckles bleed and I'm

Losing sleep

Please don't ever let go of me

Don't let go

Alone in my bedroom

Ideas in my head swirl

They are screaming out for so much more than this

A fine neon lonely

Says finding it only

Hurts when I'm between my yellow sheets and you

Awaken my sorrow

No love for tomorrow

I am crawling back so you might save me now

But words are just noises

Tokens for choices

I am hopelessly devoted to a ghost

Hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my hands are shaking

And I'm scared I'm gonna let go so

Don't let go no

Don't go oh

Cradle me

When I am weak

Don't let go this is all that I need

So hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my knuckles bleed and I'm

Losing sleep

Please don't ever let go of me

Don't let go

Mourning by morning

Day breaks the warning

Phantom limb is all that you've become to me

A dim gray about you

And somehow I just doubt you'd

Understand if I articulate myself

Tangled in cold skin

Strangled by more sin

I am struggling to draw one final breath

Dusk as my sunrise

Ephemeral enterprise

Viscera unwound in wretched dance

Hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my hands are shaking

And I'm scared I'm gonna let go so

Don't let go no

Don't go oh

Cradle me

When I am weak

Don't let go this is all that I need

So hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my knuckles bleed and I'm

Losing sleep

Please don't ever let go of me

Don't let go

Tonic of paupers

Becomes my best offer

Sacrifice of doubt met without a word

Smothered by longing

Covered by wronging

The last remaining angels left to me

Grim solitary

Still arbitrary

King or nihilism what's my fate

Lost in intentions

Froth with contentions

Facsimile of you without the soul

Hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my hands are shaking

And I'm scared I'm gonna let go so

Don't let go no

Don't go oh

Cradle me

When I am weak

Don't let go this is all that I need

So hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my knuckles bleed and I'm

Losing sleep

Please don't ever let go of me

Don't let go 

But a hurricane brewed in my soul

Lust like a typhoon

Flesh out of control

Anchored down deep in my heart

With a crooked smile I'll use you

My evil's an art

So batten the hatches with grace bring the storm that I

Know you'll weather for me

You know better than me

You'll lead me home

I pray that maybe

You'll lead me home (home to a brand new love)

You'll lead me on

Yeah you'll lead me on

I pray that maybe you'll

Lead me on (onward to the throne in love)

Hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my hands are shaking

And I'm scared I'm gonna let go so

Don't let go no

Don't go oh

Cradle me

When I am weak

Don't let go this is all that I need

So hold on

Won't you

Hold me

Cos my knuckles bleed and I'm

Losing sleep

Please don't ever let go of me

Don't let go