Who are we
To look at the sky
With unclean eyes
And claim it as ours?
To fly on wings
Light with love
And claim forever?
Who are we
To ignorantly taunt immortality
Certain that tomorrow's come
To forgive our folly?
To burn and fight and break
In our desperate haste to
Find meaning in our own noise?
Must we forever
Run and run
Into the distance
Chasing the blurred
edge of perfection?
Dance and cry
As the rain washes away
Our pretenses until
All we are is real?
Must we forever
Hint at our possession of
A knowledge not worth knowing
At the expense of happiness?
Follow in the echo
Of memories too
Quickly pushed to fading
Silence?
Look, fly, taunt, forgive, burn, flight, break, run, chase, dance, cry, wash, hit, follow, push
Live
Die
All I want to do
Is look into your forever eyes
In this moment,
Content in the silence
And the innocence of knowing
More is to come
Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 7:51 AM UTC
Who are we
To look at the sky
With unclean eyes
And claim it as ours?
To fly on wings
Light with love
And claim forever?
Who are we
To ignorantly taunt immortality
Certain that tomorrow's come
To forgive our folly?
To burn and fight and break
In our desperate haste to
Find meaning in our own noise?
Must we forever
Run and run
Into the distance
Chasing the blurred
edge of perfection?
Dance and cry
As the rain washes away
Our pretenses until
All we are is real?
Must we forever
Hint at our possession of
A knowledge not worth knowing
At the expense of happiness?
Follow in the echo
Of memories too
Quickly pushed to fading
Silence?
Look, fly, taunt, forgive, burn, flight, break, run, chase, dance, cry, wash, hit, follow, push
Live
Die
All I want to do
Is look into your forever eyes
In this moment,
Content in the silence
And the innocence of knowing
More is to come
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