I told you to Lend me your lips and I'll teach you what love is, I said I'll let my eyes become your moon if you'll lend me your collarbones so I can use them to build a bridge to the mountains inside my heartstrings
Love, I wrote you an anthem for all the nights you made my knees sing and I swore on every dying man's last breath that I would never change the tune of that song I was a fool for letting you love me I knew I would break you in You told me in life we can't always win but I thought we were Because winning was found in the mornings when your skin looked like feathers under lamplight and nights when your eyes glistened from that red wine and I swore I would never let you drink it with anyone else
I told you I couldn't catch a break and you told me life wasn't a baseball game I don't have to catch anything but oh did I ever want to catch you like a firefly in my glass heart The day you left I whispered that I would never stop writing you poems you were always giving me inspiration You still are
Yesterday I breathed a ghost out of my lungs and I swore the cigarette smoke could fill up the sky I thought maybe you'd see my signal fire telling you it's time to come home Telling you it's time to listen time to listen for the last night When you pressed your cheek against mine and told me not to call and I thought the words were poison dripping from your mouth I was screaming but nothing was coming out and I knew I couldn't live another day the same ever again
Because now that you're gone my lipstick can't even stick right and my sonnets are words numbed by hopelessness and this poem is a poem I never wanted to write You were right here standing over my shoulder just a few weeks back I have no idea where I lost track of the time but it's gone just like you