Sunflower, Are You There?

Take me to the roof

I wanna hear the sound

Of what a broken heart does

When I fling it to the ground

Save for the waning moon

There’s no one else around

I know that I’m asleep when

All my teeth come falling out

And all the walls

Come caving in

I make the jump from so high

And wake up in my bed

A song stuck in my head

From all the kids out on the stoops they're singing

Sunflower

Are you even really in there?

Sunflower

Are you really hanging in there?

Ever since you left

I’ve wanted to drop dead

The words you said are scattered out onto the pavement

You find me in my room

Standing on my head

Because I like to let the blood rush to it

How do I sleep without having a dream where I don’t wake up?

Where the kids still sing, the pendulum swings, the grass pushed up