Why didn't I meet you sooner
Before the pain, before the crazy days?
Why didn't I meet you soon enough to save you
   from the fate that awaited you
and to be saved
   from the one that awaited me?

We were young once,
we could have healed
I could have given you
two perfect tears to wear as earrings
and you could have given me the same
as cuff links or to hold my tie

But we did not meet until we were broken
yet even now I could, if you could still accept
have given you frost on snow as pure as light from Heaven
but you do not wear earrings anymore
and I no longer have a tie