My body is a fortress of your words Inside a vault of every one spoken to me I store your thoughts as colours and as you forget them they live on On my skin Never thinner only thicker Titles of the bliss we've sat through Expressions in film, notes in song They live all along even when lost to the world's newest lights I remember it all, here Whether it's in you or not I have it It never leaves When you speak remember you tattoo me with it It takes up space on my face when it dims Your whims are my reality You don't remember what you said, but it sings me to sleep You don't remember how you saw me that day, but it informs how others don't, forever I am cursed by the permanence of your temperament A temperament that changes everyday So must I
