They say loneliness

    I say continuous companion

constant state of being

They say words

I say blood breath body bone

Mangled muscle 

   knotted clotted veins

skies and ceaseless starlight

    everything

        everything

They say sleep

   I say candy floss fairyland 

           fickle sun-spun hope

      sugary fantasy

 They say paper

   I say aching empty

sodden seeping spring of secrets

       starry shreds of my conscience 

 flying freeing floating falling 

    down like 

       snow 

            snow

                snow 

     They say library

driftwood temple

        of decaying words

      dusty dying 

         dead

    I say hope

    I say home