Innocence

Can we go back to those old days
Before you were with her
Back when we were happy
Because we surely were

Before you started smoking
To find a sick escape
Before I was slicing veins
Just to feel awake

Before sex was something just for fun
And suicide was reasonable
Back when we were just two little kids
Who'd barely started middle school

Can we go back to those days
When I was still a child
And didn't know how far it was
To move three hundred miles

Can we go back to passing notes
And giggling in class
Can we remember all of that
And turn time back to make it last?

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11-19-12
Miss you, Nico.