I was standing in the airport this morning and thinking of our first kiss, When I realized I should write you this letter. I’ve bought a ticket to somewhere far away a place I know you won’t follow me, where no one knows my name.
It’s best if you forgot my name since by next Tuesday morning you won’t know where to find me. You’ll know it’s gone, that kiss and that I’m even father away. That’s why I’m writing you this letter.
I imagine you’ll burn the crinkled letter and curse that you ever asked my name curse my blush when you asked to go out with me. How you woke up at dawn that morning How you brushed chocolate off my lips with a kiss You’d curse you ever fell in love with me
When you escaped to San Francisco with me you saw all my writing, the poetry, the letters. You read a poem about dove’s kissing and you said you loved me by name. When we woke up in a hotel that first morning The world couldn’t have felt farther away
But I had plans to fly away My future wouldn’t make room for you and me I couldn’t always wake up to you in the morning I knew one day I’d have to write this letter That one day I would try and fail to forget your name That I’d always feel the pressure of that kiss
God, if I could go back to that first kiss I would push you away I would tell you to forget my name To forget everything you would love about me So I’d never have to send this letter and wake up so a l o n e in the morning
Kiss the memory of me away and touch the flame to the letter Sincerely, a nameless girl you loved yesterday morning