I wish I could build a castle of memories

Just to have somewhere to escape my own

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How tragic our narrative must be

To experience a love story
Without ears to listen

I know I keep leaving
Never known how to stay in one place
I am hard to love with a gypsy soul

The air feels cold again
Like it did when we walked across the curved crossroad leaving winding footprints buried in the snow

When the earth seemed to be peeling off her color folding the summer back into her suitcase

the kind of love you want to go on forever
the kind when you're three drinks deep into a bar on Sunday night
where you stay up long enough to meet the sun and turn into its fire
that kind of love
let me know when it comes
let me honor it when it is here
and let me let go
when it's time

Night changes nothing
when she's as beautiful during the honest hue of the day as she is to me bathed in moonlight

Thin skinned
Like I grew up in a childhood to recover from
Christ the savior
pinned against white walls
and if you're not careful they'll nail you up there too