when making love was everything

and drinking too much was
a game to play
and making it through was all we knew
man alive, we had
futures laid out
in ink the color of
sky and
hands like mollasis
from lining our bodies with saliva

(it meant magic when we smiled)

i remember when it was time
to go and i kept looking
down and
away from you is
too far from me
life has always come in
waves. whether what we are
or where we're going
takes us all back here
sleeping is the only thing
we're still the same at, now
the seasons change without
our permission and days go by
unanswered, i still know your
number by heart (not head)
how much older we are by now
losing count of shared laughs and
mystery was everything
we were good at
meant more than
just getting by
so now i'm trying hard, real hard
to wake up thinking about anything
but how many days have passed
how many nights have learned our
ways, the best of us, we buried beneath the concrete
that night in front of starbucks

five years changes you, and changes you
changes me and me to you
we're so much left over torch light fluid and
maybe one day
we'll understand how it happened
all that way
and how we have so many good nights
to look back on.

2004-06-11 | 12:14 a.m.
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