The Urban Elf

Where is the ocean
For this dandelion
Drowning in his own wine?

What am I seeing
In the haze of this moment
The inevitable wreck of my day?

Is there someone to believe in
A hero to wait for
Or an innocent to save?

Now as the others
Fall fast into sleep
What is it that I am to do?

Here in the dark
Hating everything I’ve been
What am I to be?

Love has never loved me
Like the others
But why?

I break open on her altar
My own best sacrifice
Why is it never enough?

Isn’t it so simple
The single thing I want
Just to be in love?