Can't Stop

Can’t Stop

By

Nathan Caleb Camerer

10,000 miles have passed

This journey to find the “me” you wanted me to be

Can you see the tears on my face?

They aren’t from the wind and the rain

They’re not from the cold or the heat

It’s the familiar sound of the shuffle of your feet,

In this house where I sleep

Some place you’ve never been and I’m still sleeping with your ghost

Driving in silence

Still searching for myself with you

Driving in silence

Every word and beat I hear on the radio,

Is like an alcohol drenched paper cut on my heart

Reminding me that every bloody word I write,

Is written in wasted emotion

No longer the love that can save my life like water

Words have become my enemy

Driving in silence

I can’t stop hearing words that you spoke

Words of love and words of hate

Why did you say “yes”?

I can’t stop this wandering

Looking for my face in the crowd that surrounds you

Dressed in a way that will satisfy your heart

Outfitted with all the proper attributes and accessories

Laying my head on the cold ground,

Dreading the dawn of a new day as old and stale as the last one

Driving in silence

I can’t stop

I can’t…