had i the words
i would give you a thousand reasons to love me
had i the words
youwouldnever doubt me
had i the words we'd be ambrosia
had i the words but
i never don't
so goodbye
til dictionary and beyond
as long as the mayflies by MadamSarcasm, literature
Literature
as long as the mayflies
Stratosphere and calming banks. When oceans war and I sink, cry out but don't save me. Drowning never seemed so angry with you sailing the plain above.
Old creeks and woods we haunted as younger ghosts. You climbed trees like you were born for it, eating the piney fruit of yesterday with all the vibrancy of a bird native to a world that wasn't ours. Angel in a different age.
Mornings and snowflakes died faster than we could breathe, but they were there anyway to call to us in the streets or midnights, along paths and bleeding hearts when we were above reproach and a little less than god.
Endless footprints on beaches we forgot. I knew
Our hands aren't so different,
yours and mine.
Your breathing's harsh,
mine is air.
Your hair's so sun kissed,
and mine's the darkest washed.
Your eyes are clenched a painful tight;
mine are opened impossibly wide.
Your lips stumble on stark confessions;
mine are drenched in the delight of deceit.
We two, so opposite,
fall out of count
for the rest of the world.
but our hands
see the same
Pale moonlight caress
both,
the milky glove,
too blue light
busts through to reveal
we're the same,
oh, you and I.
wrinkles not built
from time but love
on our young flesh
and callouses on
our raisin
fingers.
streams of wha
had i the words
i would give you a thousand reasons to love me
had i the words
youwouldnever doubt me
had i the words we'd be ambrosia
had i the words but
i never don't
so goodbye
til dictionary and beyond
as long as the mayflies by MadamSarcasm, literature
Literature
as long as the mayflies
Stratosphere and calming banks. When oceans war and I sink, cry out but don't save me. Drowning never seemed so angry with you sailing the plain above.
Old creeks and woods we haunted as younger ghosts. You climbed trees like you were born for it, eating the piney fruit of yesterday with all the vibrancy of a bird native to a world that wasn't ours. Angel in a different age.
Mornings and snowflakes died faster than we could breathe, but they were there anyway to call to us in the streets or midnights, along paths and bleeding hearts when we were above reproach and a little less than god.
Endless footprints on beaches we forgot. I knew