i know we're over, though you and i are not

you're the best anchor i've known, though we have
shaken, faltered, lost our place
i thank you for staying though things have changed
through rough patches and tough decisions
and i thank you for being here
and staying the same

i'm not as great as everyone else you know
and that's okay
but just know i'll still be here
and i will stay the same
i only hope i can do half as much for you
as you have done for me

autopiloting;
i can't think or feel a thing--
where have i gone now?

even if there is
no we, no us, at least there
is still you and i

there is a hunger
burning the empty pit of
my lonely stomach

we were young then, with eyes and smiles
brighter than the stars that we watch at night.
we did what we were told, back then, simply because
we were told to do it.

ah, but you,
you aspired to shoot down the stars,
to stick on our ceiling, ever-glowing-in-the-dark.
so we buy our guns and just go.

and then on this bitter autumn night,
lead defies gravity, with a loud bang launched into the sky.
and then the clouds came, and
our breath hung in the air like f o g .

'look,' i said to you then, 'its snowing.'

'no, look again,' you smiled, 'we killed the stars, they're ours now.'


look what we did:
exactly what they said we couldn't.

journey under skies
bright with stars, to the ocean's
edge and back again.

rise from the ashes
of your alienation
and thrive in the fire.


ascend from the ash
of bitter desolation
and die in your fire.