Baby, I’m Blue

Baby, I’m Blue

Jack came home at 4 AM

Stumbled in from a New York night

With breath full of beer

Searching for that empty pack of Reds

He’d left at the bar

Next to a ½ empty glass of yesterdays

Lily was in the bathtub

Soaking in her winter sister

Waiting for morning

Smoking and thinking:

“When did it end?”

Then Jack came in and so it begins

She looked at him with vacant eyes

“Baby, I’m blue” was all that she said

“And I’m a nobody filled with you”

Was the answer he gave as he looked away

Then Lily got out of the tub

And Jack sobered up

Jack & Lily at the kitchen table

“It’s cold in me and too warm with you”

“What’s missing in me just isn’t in you”

With no more words it ended there

And they wondered in silence

About mornings without

Heading downtown on the 6

On a day that felt like late September

Jack’s vacant eyes locked with Lily

Whose own were filled with someone new

And it all became clear with the words lodged in his throat

“Baby, I’m blue” was all that he knew