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Once Words

Our children Are the stars In the night In reverse Lights That have already Died We knew their names Before they existed We wished it And lost it In the same Breath It's the same When I think of Our future Carefully planned out A dream so vivid We woke with Syrup on our tongues But it is done Before we reached it A tomorrow Written In a notebook That's missing That's been thrown out With the last scraps Of hope Left in my soul W and E No longer a whole So we go Our separate ways Cause it's necessary Cause you need And I need Things we can't be For each other So we cover More ground On our own Better for being alone And one day We will come together And share What we have found What we have now What we have made Without the weight Of us Of the names We no longer need love Of the life We were wrong to Have dreamed of Our children Were stars Far From our reach And we loved them Each Well before They were made Of you and me Who are Lights That have already died And no l...

Teach Words

Teach me the stars in the dark on your bed in your heart so its hard and fast and smooth like glass and strong like your arms at my waist so it's warm in the place where your hands meet my sea make me cry at your lips and forget that I'm me teach the night to my skin under the moon and soon and you can have all my secrets all the ache at the base of my spine down down down to the water at my feet teach me sweet the way you know it best at the ends of my lines and our eyes as they meet to promise release teach me the stars in the dark on your bed with your heart and I promise to teach you to meet the sun in the wake of my need