i used to play the guitar
it was an act of brutality
and sometimes
like touching a beautiful woman
and sometimes
both

i could feel
the thing in me that just knows life
that thing would play the guitar
and then it would go hide again

but i still feel that guitar
when i pick it up
and it is mine
it gives itself to me
and just holding it feels like home
maybe the only home i've ever really known

i used to sleep with it
just stop playing and roll over and sleep