You are dark and sultry

You are dark and sultry
Like the shadows under eyes
In deep bars with the thick
Smell of the past wafting in between
The smell of wine and spilled
Liquor memories that
Slowly take over
The tones and incantations
We try to stay
The night with.

Deep deep down

Deep deep down
Pounds a beat, beats
Drown in sound and sand
As I fight to stay above
The fray, frayed and beyond
My capacity to see
Beyond each second that passes.

I want to take her home
With me and tell her it will be
Okay and though I am
An honest girl, that would be
A lie.

I do not know, what
Do I know? It's no
Thing I can't handle, she says,
I say, we insist and yet
We can't because we hold
The lion's share of all
The things that
Buckle people.

But we do not buckle.
We stay.
We fight one more day and hope that
Deep deep down
sounds a beat, beats
Strong in sound and sand
Keeps us above the fray, frayed
But beyond the things that
Keep us down, deep deep down.