Part One - The Man

i went the wrong way
i am now lost and walking further and further from where i should be
there's no more houses
just road
running on for hours and miles
i keep going straight
keep going straight
keep going straight

and i wake up again
gotta keep moving
no more wrong turns
there can be no mistakes if i keep moving forward
a shoe lies a kilometre behind me
one bare foot
yet it's the other which is bleeding
a fingernail on the ground
i'm falling apart

i wake up
this journey is slow
i remember water
and people
and sky
i have none of those things here
a blood filled shoe behind me
and a foot beneath me in the dust
three more fingernails and a tooth
i am unstable

i do not remember memories
i have emotions
i know tiredness
and frustration
a pair of legs, crossed on the side of the road
and a pair of fingerless hands
pulling me forwards slowly
i couldn't turn if i tried
i can only pull forwards
and only so long as i'm here
a head and a heart
buried in the sand

i am no more

the tissue paper man