I want one thousand words

Instead of this one lousy picture

Of you looking angry

And me looking bored

I wanna drink my anger down

With a hot salt water chaser

To remind myself of every night

I waited for your two line emails.

And you're sorry for nothing,

Not for leaving me behind.

And your letters and your photographs

Won't bring back the year I lost

To you.

I want one thousand words

As long as one of them is sorry.

If it's more than that

You know I'll be impressed.

I want my photo albums back

And all the images I've given you

Because the one left in my head

Is of blood spilled on the icy pavement.

And you're sorry for nothing,

And not for leaving me behind.

And your letters and your photographs

Won't bring back the year I lost

To you.

And I'm sorry for everything,

And for everything that I wanted.

And this letter and my stupid photographs

Won't bring back the year I lost

To you.

I want one apology

That's the least that I'll accept from you

That's the most I'll ever think of you again.