This city
Every square inch
Of pavement
Even the trees
Remind me of you
I lift my head
To see past it
Stare straight into another memory
But you-
You don't want to hear
About romance
Or how even brick
Breaks my heart
Because all I see in it
Is you.

One year
The span across my eyelids
The length from shoulder blade to shoulder blade
The inches between
(It) took time away from me
I lost all focus
I lost all need
I'm learning what it takes,
The building
Humble I am to the reprieve
Looking back now
I can be nothing but grateful.

it starts with your name
lay me down
so we can begin again
i kneel by your side
like a practice at the pulpit
swallowing whole sins you may have owned
beforehand
i stare straight past
all we have seen
because i want to believe
there's a lot more left
for you and i
so, show me this time
while i'm on the floor
while you have me
undivided, unhinged
knees bent toward
all my love for you
what it is
i just can't live without

hiding
kept you in hiding
slowly pining
down my palms
(for you)
for once, i give in
to secret
recoiling my blood
when i realize what i'm doing
but it's so easy
loving
well, maybe it shouldn't be
but it is
a persistent knocking
at my temples
i cannot help but feel the weight
of your knuckles tonight

Can't keep caring
For something that has stopped
Caring
So long ago
So long, then

If
You were not taken
I would take you
To the smallest parts
Of me
And place my hands
Over your heart
And tell you
(Once)
That you may have left
But you never left me
And I,
Never you

we lay in bed
and speak to the ceiling
through each other
to one another
and finally tell our feelings
to the placeholders in the walls
to the guilt inside our chests
you were meant for loving
and i am craving it
my arms around you
my mind intertwined in this sweet divide
of where you and i started
of where you and i hide
it's easy to lose
when you face the collide
but darling,
all i've ever wanted
was to be by your side