For when I saw her
My heart fell open

For she did more than sing
With her words she made love

For with the notes
Her heart did spill

For when I saw her
I fell in love

There are so many people inside me that some days I don’t know who I am

Their voices are so loud I don’t know which is mine

I have lived a thousand lives

I have walked a thousand miles

I have loved and laughed and cried

I have been full

And empty

And on my worst days, both together

I am a jumble

I am incoherent and confused

I am alone

And I am unsound

I’ve never been more awake
And all I want is to scream your name
It is for you i ache
As my lungs fill and break
With every intake

‘I don’t run with the world’
She said, ‘I run beside it’
He reached out to heal her
But found instead that
He moved through her