This letter was not meant for you it was meant for me with you to that crystalline time when we were two before the shattering was through.
The mornings in when we lay oblivious to the shuffle and the city din when the weight of the world was still not enough to budge us a single inch from between the linens.
So I recollect all the fragments I thought I left I'm not one to dwell but what else is left for the lonely boy at the bottom of a well?
But now there are three There's you and there's me and there's who we could've been And I've not spoken to him yet as I'm not sure this specter is real Or maybe I'm afraid to ask if he once half-lived, was he thrown from the wheel and tossed down the well here with you and them?
But I've fooled myself again What I saw as a window was only a mirror that needed mending And what I heard as your voice was always the wind hurling back at me my own laments.
Beauty brutally murdered my captain One touch, and the crew deserted a hasty mutiny to an unknown island Where I before with calm weathered the waves, now the torrent upends the bow, wrecked upon rocks that could've been havens.
So I'm thrown from the sea to the sands Left alive by a wiser hand than I, doomed to make beach castles, just a man mending the grains, seeing the slate wiped clean again and again forever banned from the mountain and the densely wooded lands.
One day I'll abandon my post cut short my careful tending and set off from the coast Leave behind the crooked lines and SOS signs, the feeble moats Face the interior, each step deep down and further down into the jungle dark and every fear the most Hope beyond all Hope that all I own is Hope and one day reach the sun, then I'll know.
And what keeps me shuffling through the dark? The thought of you shuffling too alone and apart Not the thought that our end will be as our start but that the art of the whole **** thing is all we are.