I used to love the sound of rain
The way it pittered on a windows pain;
The way it patterned on a cobbled lane
I used to love the rain.

You pealed across my sky like thunder
While I, like lightning, zigged and zagged in blunder;
On darkened night you aimed to plunder
But this golden heart had been torn asunder.

I can't account for the ways I've healed
Or which battles on wounded knee I've kneeled;
It's seen on every battle field
The way I've fought, yelled, whispered, & keeled.

As she spews contortion
from her violin chest
The sounds of C minor
began to build a nest
&
As he sifts through propaganda
of bamboo and blast beats
The floor begins to take him
for he hasn't slept in weeks

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Their thoughts cascade like fire
around the sounds of Show Your Bones
And kerosine licks her wounds
as they spit it up upon old homes
They strike their fondest matches
and watch the wooden parts ungrow
And then they place them in each others mouth
Where no one else will ever go

She dances with rhythm amongst the chaos
while she weaves a tail of smoke
And the beauty caught in her third eye
is the only thing that's broke
His gaze is focused on only one thing
the pittered pattern of her percussion feet
As he finds warmth by the molten lava houses
while standing at the center of the street

Their goal was finely furnished
they burnt a hole right through their childhood
One that would scar their mother earth
who had forgotten how to feel this good
Their past was made of synapses
that could only be found up in their head
And when they really thought about it
they found that 'now' is all that's left

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As she choreographed a drum line
with the snare found in her sole
The days, the months, the years: her life
began to take their toll
&
As his desk sits around him
he pens a mystery
Of flames and lust: of destruction
he can finally fall asleep

Sometimes, I feel bad for what went on between us.
But not for the love, not for the work, not for the trust.

Not for the grief, not for the fights,
Not for the days together, not when we were apart for nights,
Not for the movies, not for the songs,
Not for the dances, not for the times we talked all night long.
Not for the times you opened my mind, and as I hope I did your,  
Not for crying with you, when I was bare to my core,
Not for what I said, though not always kind,
Not for the hours holding you, comfy thoughts in mind,

So I guess I’m only sorry for how it stopped.
How the heartbeat did not flourish, but pittered, and dropped.
And though I still do, and will, think of our time we had,
I hope eventually you can too, and be glad.

Glad for the experience, the relation formed,
Glad for the feelings, two hearts warmed,
Glad that it lasted, as long as it did,
Glad that it ended, true feelings un-hid.

I venture forward, changed by you,
And lastly bid you, softly, adieu