I need you
The way Earth needs gravity
To stay in light's orbit

Without you
I lose myself in light years
Afloat in space

Humans draw borders on land
As if Earth is unchanging
And our lives immortal to witness the stance
We lay claims to insignificant materials fleeting
But the world and so much more could be all yours
And all yours could remain for Earth's time
If we could only learn to fly our lands as birds do the skies
Traverse the currents as fish do waters

Because just what are you attempting to obtain
With these imaginary labels and lines invisible
Cowardly caging yourself in
From supposed evils of the world
Never to be wiped out
If you are harboring the worst of vices within

Milky constellations studied for centuries by astronomers
Form a floating river separating two lovers
Every night they ponder
At which moment they could have started over

But not once does the daughter of the heavens
Repent on her escapade onto Earth
Nor the ox-herder regret his walk along the river
For never would their souls have stayed entwined for lifetimes otherwise

Was this eternal story of love always destined to end like this
But is this the end or merely a beginning

For if birds adorned in feathers of the night’s colors
Can be moved by their fathomless love
To craft a cosmic bridge on the seventh day of the seventh cycle of the moon
For a reunion that brings tears to clouds and smiles to the stars

Who is to say
That there won’t be a day
When that bridge will stay
Forever in the skies

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When you treat your land like a game board
Dictating people's fates as if moving pieces back and forth
Are you aware
That you are as much a piece of the game
Though others' lives may be at your mercy
Your life is in no means capable of escape
If you treat other lives as less valuable than your own
Without ever truly knowing love
In the end
You have the most to lose

You say I add colors to your days dull
But what is a few particles of color in your waves of rainbow
What is my ray of light lost in your starglow
Your radiance kisses my nights gold
The guiding compass I will always follow

If we are playing a losing game
Waiting to see who first has a change of heart
Then there is no need
For I have already lost

But I'd let me lose myself in you
Time and time again
For to be lost in truth
Is alike to being found

Sometimes I wake up
To seconds that float in oblivion
Before it all floods back in waves

Dreams sewed into webs of thread
Sunshine caught in shards of glass
Seashells echoed on ears' shores

But in a sanctuary of stars
Lies the peaceful silence of unborn stars

Can you feel that day a year ago today
As if it was just yesterday
When hope and hopelessness both hung in the air
Like the breath held before fireworks burst into the night
The marvel of the glimmer for the seconds that the lights last
Then the disappointment after at the clear dark sky

But there must be something about us together
Both times there were supposed to be fireworks
Electricity hummed in the air
Because we don't need vanishing works of fire and light
When our hearts are already carrying them
My air above your earth making storms of magic lasting

The crescent moon gazed down at us
As I unrelentingly borrowed more minutes from Time
Two hearts burning flames in the night
Beneath our calm facades

My mind imagined my fingers tracing up your right arm
Casually resting on your steering wheel
But it would have been too much
For me to have to let go

And even my eyes averted yours
For they wouldn't have survived
Your starry oceans drowning
So my mouth talked about everything
But the blatant fact that Fate was again
Cruelly separating you from me

Now I am left with nothing
But the taste of your skin warm
Lingering on my lips
Haunting me awake at night

One bare second
When I so willingly
Let you steal my heart once more
After which I had to rush out of your car

Because one more second
And even the ghost of my heart
Empty beatings I need to survive by
In the darkness of the next nine moons
Would have been trapped
Under your inescapable spell

the girl cried wolf
but no one took heed
to her teardrops of crimson

the girl whispered wolf
still rose petals shed into the night

the girl thought wolf
this time there was none left to listen
not even the wolf

The United divided
America
Optimism can change progress
Justice matters
Make better and inspire
To be that dream

The word "love" (愛) written in my mother language
Contains the word "heart"
As does the word I use to tell you I "miss" you

A character that can also mean "think" or "want"
Because when it comes to you
My heart does the thinking
And all of my body
Wherever my heart's blood touches
Yearns for your love

You can pin me down
But shattered scales will be all that is left
Wings bloodied
By a heart u n b l e e d i n g

In my search for the universe
I heard the wingbeats of a butterfly
Wandering from the moon to the earth
I saw the stars sprinkle dust of love
Onto lands uncharted
And in those moments
I discovered worlds inside you