(2013)
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
I’ve always been at the very least a little caught up on everything about you This idea of you
All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
I awoke in the dark next to you and more alone than ever I was amazed to hear your heart beating from
Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
Everyone sees god in a different light but I was born without eyes
I was like a rain cloud over a small garden and dammit if you weren’t that garden so full of flowers that I fell in love
I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
I wish you had told me that on the good days kissing you would make me think that I knew what happiness was and on the bad days
The hands of this watch haven’t moved since the last time you did and I’m not sure if I’m ready to hear the ticking
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like