hold my bones together

i am tired of unrequited love i am tired of watching people fade as they leave me i am tired of being a secondary character in my own motion picture i am tired of every love i’ve ever known becoming a sandcastle that falls through my fingers when i try to hold it please let me hold it just a little bit longer let me cradle you in my hands a delicate porcelain artifact i cannot risk the pain of letting break again i am tired of picking glass out of my hands i am tired of sweeping you up and running out of tears to glue you back together i am tired of waiting for phone calls that will never come i am tired of inviting people into homes and letting them become ghosts to haunt me