the songs that nobody wrote


by R

here are the poems
and what they all spoke

here are the songs
that nobody wrote


here are the lovers
lost in their heads

here is the promise
I should never have said


you sound like a hero
you're my favorite, you know

I'll tell you I love you
ten times in a row

tell me about your family
in the key of G

you have uncles of
basses
much better than me

cousins of tubas
from your Canadian side



also your sister , Xylophone
who came along for the
ride


you never need money
you all live on clouds and and sweet songs


a beautiful story
about where people belong.



don't explain anything
please, let me guess

you won't take my confessions
&
you know the rest

I'm Beethoven and Elliot
I'm king of the air


We'll end up in somewhere
that never was there.


© R Becker