I study your face every chance I get
Count the lines on your forehead
Memorise the curve of your lip
I take mental polaroids
To pin up around my mirror
So I can keep every angle
And every expression
Just in case
Just in case you go
Or somehow I forget you
Just in case I can't remember
How alive you look in this very moment
Or the rich chocolate of your eyes
In case I forget the stubble on your cheek
Or the inhibitions of that wide smile
I could take a thousand pictures
I could write a million poems
But I can never quite capture
The life I see in you
Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 11:55 PM UTC
I study your face every chance I get
Count the lines on your forehead
Memorise the curve of your lip
I take mental polaroids
To pin up around my mirror
So I can keep every angle
And every expression
Just in case
Just in case you go
Or somehow I forget you
Just in case I can't remember
How alive you look in this very moment
Or the rich chocolate of your eyes
In case I forget the stubble on your cheek
Or the inhibitions of that wide smile
I could take a thousand pictures
I could write a million poems
But I can never quite capture
The life I see in you
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