Can You?

Can you make me forget?

Can you be my escape?

Can your kiss

send me into ecstasy

of dreams and sky

and space and stars?

Can you erase my mistakes?

Paint over my broken dreams

with cozy realities

and nights of passion and sin?

Can you fly with me

to Austria and Italy,

far away island escapes

of white sand and blue water?

Can you make me stop thinking

about checkered pasts

and chaotic presents?

Can you gloss over the pain,

replace the heartbreaks

with life and fire and fun?

Can you get me writing again?

Can you get me dreaming again?

Can you help me?

Can you throw me

a life preserver

so I don’t drown

in this lonely ocean?