Octopus in Open Water

<: ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,

ooh, ooh, ooh. I learned silence before language.

Learned waiting by the door. Little shoes lined by the window. For footsteps that

came no more. You taught me how to vanish without meaning to it all.

A child making oceans out of cracks in the wall.

Now I don't ask for rescue, I don't reach, I don't plead. I learned early

how to breathe when love forgets me. I'm an octopus in open water.

eight arms but I hold my heart alone. I change my colors when I