here we are again the edge of the world the streetlights far behind us and your smile in the hazy dark
truth be told we tiptoed out of our cages bringing old notebooks and sleepless dreams tripping into each other's laughs
it has been months since it was like this the uncertainty of your hand on my wrist hushed whispers in the dead of the night and I feel weight slip off my spine
our feet carry us to the only place of solace that we know and even in the weeks of forgetting in the time I let the sea carry you away we will always find our way back here
and you start telling me of his steady hands I remember that yours were never like that so I smile at the thought of you belonging somewhere after years of wandering aimlessly
so you make sand towers like you always do and I look for seashells like I always do the sea is singing lullabies to the two weary souls and my pulse is humming with it
you race me to the water and the stars glitter as you wade through them the wind whips our hair into a tangled mess of ink and I barely reach you when you start to speak
you recite dead languages to my fingertips all I can think of is the promise of a sweet death your voice against my sea-kissed skin and the only eyes that could drown me
we drag ourselves to the shore shaking the sand from our hair we get blankets to wrap around our shoulders and I feel the corners of my mouth tilt up
side by side all of the languages of the world dead to us now as we breathe in the sweetness of escape and our heads tilt towards each other
you ask me what I look for in someone and I trace swirls into the sand for a while because I don't know and maybe I have never known
almost two decades of this fragile life almost everyone I’ve loved only people of my imagination| and I kid myself with the question and maybe I’m just afraid of the answer
but I draw the constellations in my mind as I whisper to myself "you."