your lips leak from shadows
too cold to bear your name
the trees hide you away from me
miles away and i mean nothing
every word burns like wildfire

can't the sky let me forget?

mother earth,
we have stolen so much from you- too much.
we have taken your trees, your mountain tops,
your moss covered rocks, your rivers and streams.
i know the tears you shed- i shed them too (for my home),
i know how desperate you are to repair- to rebuild,
and i wish that i could lay my hands upon you.
i wish that i could heal you all by myself.

you are the rain that falls in january. soft at first--
then chaining me to the bed.
your hands, a message from jupiter
swirling around inside my head
and i'm lost in your thunder.
at 4am i hear you call
you ask where i've gone again--
if i will return this time.

when you lied i thought i never loved you.
silver fills the cracks in my fingers
and i've spent one more year under your open sky.

when blue eyes are enough. wrists painted white to cover up your scars.
i said i never loved you,
but i lied.
to protect you from the dark in me.
all of my broken pieces, hidden in the darkest corner
of the last room down the longest hall-
and the walls i built won't crumble
standing strong for too long now,
your hands won't set me free this time
your arms won't hold me still this time.

the ocean in you left nothing in me
carried my heart away with the flood
washing away everything before
and after.

oh, all the wars i lost loving you.

in dreams i know
how every strand of hair falls
your sun-kissed shoulders glow
in the summer sun.
the storm that came and stole your eyes-
sweat dripping down your neck,
your legs slide slow down in that water
haunted when you're sleeping
by the salt on my lips.

tower up into the night like a young tree-
fragile but wild.
uprooted, i forget
i forgive
burn out every piece that lingers
every word that isn't love
there's glass in my heart but i feel nothing
i can leave but have nowhere to go
a life lived too open
a half lie and i am bleeding again
i know you don't love me.
i know you don't love me.