Never caught in the searchlights

Of anybody else's life

That's why you stay

That's why I won't say:

"you don't fit in elsewhere anyway babe"

It's a big stretch

Into nothingness

Tracing for something else

Something that doesn't hurt

Or stain your heart

Never mentioned in kind words

But oh, so often heard

Not even dwarfed

By our helplessness

In a garbage filled apartment

Where all your time got spent

And the smell from decades away

Couldn't help you around the bend

It's a big stretch

Into nothingness

Not slowed down

By our littleness