Foxtrot

The tears that I shed My wet face that I held The remaining fragments that I lost And the memories worth a cost The little pieces that I sold And the stories that I told Name my price and auction my soul Not worth even a piece of raw coal Name my price and auction my heart Maybe a dime or a broken wooden cart Name my price and auction my mind But please let those memories rewind Some shattered pieces of myself Placed safe in a safe on a shelf I gave them to a beloved soul Only to leave me with a big hole There is a hole in my heart Which has left me torn apart Abuses and dejection is what I got And so I chose to become Foxtrot

 Lets set our hearts on fire And share our deepest desire Tangled in this wire Are memories worth Sapphire  A glass of whiskey and lime And this philosophical rhyme The midnight clock chime And a love worth just a dime With my pen name,  Every poetic letter I sign Whilst breathing and coughing  Like in a smokey coal mine Staring at the clouds above I tell my readers, I fell in love Not so long ago in the past Just to make it last I sold my boastful honor, in a shiny silver plate  So they wrote on my gravestone  " Foxtrot The late "