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I pointed a .45 at my reflection in the sea

pulled the trigger and started to bleed

She came up behind me

Wrapped her arms around me and whispered

We spend our whole lives, going out of our minds

I looked at my rippled, red reflection in the salty water

Saw her face, came to my senses, somehow

when my senses seem so radical lately

broken bottles cutting scars

I held her hopes to the stars

when night finally fell

and we cradled beneath the moon

the air began to cool

and she led me back inside

to show me I hadn’t died

the wounds all memory now

healed and stored away

in a life gone astray

We laid on the bed and watched TV

237 channels and there’s nothing on

I finally fell asleep

the waves out there silent and still

the sea as calm as glass

The sun broke through in the morning

and I awoke

alone, sheets void of any angel

and realized  that love was but a dream