False Start

Pinch my arm and hope you're there
Finger, thumb, and disappear
Call it chaos, call it right
It only hurts until it rhymes
Until it rhymes

Did you look down at my hands
Try to read my callouses
Did I watch it melt away?
Remember when I loved LA
And didn't stay?

What a shame
How incomplete
With more to say
Than slides between our teeth

If it's a false start
We’re just doing our best and
What I thought when I saw you
I knew it when I left
When I left