we escape from the house   as the day disappears from the sky   into night   we became what we wanted to be   like a dream or a ghost   i collapse out of turn   near a house   lying still in the grass and felt the heat from the ground   rising up to contract and expand like a breathe   we escape from that place   soaked with sweat and the poison we drank   fill the bathtub with ice and hope this fever will break   like a heart   easily   but i do not recall all the words that were formed   on those wire lips as they greeted me   a promise was made without though as the temperature climbed   and i started to sink like the moon   tends to do if you stare at it too long   then you blink and its gone   and we crawl to our sleep with the dawn   i awake in the light feeling hollow and selfishly warm   close the blinds and retreat until what is burning is gone   and it's light is away   then we are back in the dark   chasing nothing through backyards and trees   you ripped your shirt on a fence but it didn't get me   yeah it's fear   it makes you so low   and these creatures look crooked   their shadows cut lines through my face and the concrete is fire   where my bare feet are placed   in a line next to yours   and i guess i'm not sure if it was fear that was born   as those awful eyes made their claim on us   i put my hands on the fence   said your name   and i started to climb   and it must have been sweat but i drank it like wine   it was sweet and my mouth was dry   i heard you scream but i made no reply   i can still taste it now if i try