What Elephant? - Persephone

Oh, sweet dark-haired nixie
I remember trudging home exhausted
To our little apartment
And I swear
Something in your air
Could breathe me through the portal.
Made it seem immortal
When I was looking up at you
Through iridescent light —
The movement of water
And my blurry sight.
Now I'm rubbing my eyes
Only to realize
I haven't slept in nine years
Not one single night.
Now, when it's all over
And there are no pieces left to gather
I know you're the one
That got away.
Persephone
Why didn't you make me stay,
Bound and tied my legs
To the bottom of the lake
Never to wake?
Do you think I haven't tried
Writing a letter like this,
One without a single lie
Then thinking better of it?
This whole persona
And this tape recorder —
Just a doomed attempt
To return and reorder
Every night since the one
We fell asleep in the tub.
Red wine imbibed
With promises of new love.
Every time I've tried the same
With another
Your ghost calls me back
And wants to hold me under.
I want you to hold me under.
Promise to hold me under.
Now, when it's all over
And there are no pieces left to gather
I know you're the one
That got away.
Persephone
Why didn't you make me stay,
Bound and tied my legs
To the bottom of the lake
Never to wake?
Now, when it's all over
And there are no pieces left to gather
I know you're the one
That got away.
Persephone
Why didn't you make me stay,
Bound and tied my legs
To the bottom of the lake
Never to wake?

Written by:
David Uffner

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