I watch you in stop motion.
Love-
ly
dress,
I
must
con-
fess,
I probably
won’t
remember it
at all.
They’ve been trying for a while now
to anchor you down
tie you to the anvils of atoms and silk
I’ve been telling them for a while now
you’re extra-planetary
you won’t fit into their egg cartons
your first appearance
was marked by a fire
engulfing any earthly
binding or chains
You’ve been burning for a while now
with unlikely alchemy
with flames that repeat my exhaling
We’ve been missing for a while now
lost in each other
away from the world of atoms and silk
Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 11:33 PM UTC
I watch you in stop motion.
Love-
ly
dress,
I
must
con-
fess,
I probably
won’t
remember it
at all.
They’ve been trying for a while now
to anchor you down
tie you to the anvils of atoms and silk
I’ve been telling them for a while now
you’re extra-planetary
you won’t fit into their egg cartons
your first appearance
was marked by a fire
engulfing any earthly
binding or chains
You’ve been burning for a while now
with unlikely alchemy
with flames that repeat my exhaling
We’ve been missing for a while now
lost in each other
away from the world of atoms and silk
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