If you were a dream
          let me be the eternal sleeper
If you were a song
           let me never take off the headphones
If you were darkness
          let there never be light

If I were a boy living the dream
          of listening to that song in the dark

Let you be you.

as you crash into the room, sending
ripples like a stone breaking water
through the atmosphere, leaves me gasping,
bobbing, surfing through the peaks and valleys
of the disturbance you so casually giggled

one touch from you makes my heart
so big it swallowed the ocean
but you saved it with just a kiss
dares me to wander how you fly without a cape
leaving supersonic trails in the cloudless sky

**close your eyes baby, let us turn around and jump
forget the wings and open the umbrella
like a feather i swing back and forth under your gravity
and you whisper to me    
"I am the gentlest letdown--"

sidestepping the eagerness
you seemed voracious, i seemed anxious
yet we both were capricious
conscious of the choices
like adding N.E.S.S. to a word
doesn’t make it a noun
meaninglessness is still just
meaningless
like adding you and me
doesn’t equal love

no, love
it’s just you
it’s just me
nothing in between
close like lotion and skin
close like coffee and cream
close like
nothing in between
not even

love.