Aujourd’hui, l’odeur de tes draps m’est revenue
Pis j’me serais étendu, j’me serais perdu
Dans cette mer de soie si seulement
Tu m’avais pas noyé de toutes ces paroles, hier.

Aujourd’hui, j’ai pensé à toi
J’ai pas pleuré, j’ai pas crié
J’ai juste pensé si seulement
J’avais pu pensé avant, hier.

Aujourd’hui, hier, on s’en criss.
T’es où pour marquer mes jours?

Your skin is a world of wonders
With islands disguised as freckles
And earthquakes shaking
The wrinkles that your smile draws

Your eyes are planets in galaxies
Far away, blue as sea
Pierced by black holes absorbing
My gaze against my will

Your lips are pillows
On which I lie at night
And dream of worlds of wonders
Of planets, of galaxies

Far away
Next to me

There’s this thing that happens
Only once in a lifetime
When you meet that one person
That nothing can undermine

And you will long for his lips
And you will long for his love
And he will either long for yours
Or want you in some other way

And it’s scary to give it your all
And it’s scary to strip your soul naked
But what else can you do?
When all you want is for it to be true.

You whisper it all in my ear, as if it would make more sense.
You’re still leaving in the morning, was this all just pretense?

“I’m leaving, there’s nothing I can do about it.”
“You’re leaving, are these feelings you can’t admit?”

You say it’s not that easy, life gets in the way.
I say it could be easy, what if you were to stay?

You whisper it all in my ear, and kiss my shoulder afterwards.
You’re still leaving in the morning, were those all just careless words?

I would write never-ending verses
Your name between the lines
You would ask me who that was
The “you” I would put on a shrine

You still appear between my lines
And you still shine through me like you did before

Should I have given up and unmasked “you”?

Would you still be here?
My face in your hand, your face in mine.

As your fingers tickle my skin as they would a piano
And as my pupils dilate as they would after the unexpected flash of a camera

I surf the waves of ice as they crash against our boat
And I’m bewildered by your Oscar-worthy acting

And the way you pretend to help me navigate this boat
But in the end are just pushing holes through the hull

It’s bizarre the way you colour my cheeks
And make my eyes rain

The way you make my lips curve
And make my voice thunder

All in a matter of seconds

Some scars you’ve got there. Like you tried to rip your own heart out. Like you knew that he would come by and sweep you off your feet and never catch you once you’re falling back down.

Some scars you’ve got there. Like you tried to rip your own heart out. Like the love he never showed and the way he twisted your feelings would’ve gotten you far in the race of humans.

Some scars you’ve got there. Like you tried to rip your own heart out. Like his unfamiliar kiss on your adam’s apple could forgive the things left unsaid and the smiles that never came.

Some scars you’ve got there.

You let him rip your own heart out.