we were lovers

we were lovers, never friends

i fell headlong into your smile

melted in the heat of your skin

became addicted to the taste of your lips

and remembered their crest

your breathing reminded me i am alive

and that feeling ran ecstatically through my veins

and i shouted to the night

bless this love

but this love had no direction

we were lovers, never friends

champagned nights couldn't cure me

they soaked me to the bone and i couldn't run

we were young

our bodies fit perfectly

and you wrapped yourself around me for a year

and i borrowed your name

as sure as waves of love crashed in

they swept me out with you as well

there was no going back

you were part of my storybook i could tell

we slept and didn't sleep in a borrowed cottage

and the tower light swept through our room

i was lost, found, drunk and sober

we were children of the night

even the shadows couldn't steal that jealous moon

you were cool like river air on my skin

yeah we were lovers, never friends

 

History

hymns of the past ancient humming captivates me, the sound of comfort as old as I am
first rememberings
memories of you and us
now dust
days of feeling like a lone book end
you are the missing other
I shelter all this
the sound of you coming home
your last leaving
hushed voices in deep of night
the link of you just feet away
the distance unapproachable for feet so small
halo's disappeared, I forgot they were real
broken hours took their place
I hear your laughter in my children
I see your eyes in another's face
makes me wonder...
do we remember the little glimmers we leave behind
in generations we will never see
yet have an ancestral claim
for all their happenings that make us
history

fair weather girl

I crave to hear the words you'll never say
The light in your eyes is dark even on the brightest day
Close the blinds, close out the world
I love you still, my fair weather girl

My words are loud cause you don't hear me
I am your doubt, the fear you'll be like me
I used to be the center of your pretty pink world
Now you count the days until you leave
So long my fair weather girl

You're beautiful, you don't need me to tell you
I gave everything all I did was fail you
Your life is full there's no space to fit me in
I crave the days that long lay past
You won't be mine that way again

So may the sun shine in your world
You say you won't miss the rain
The silver sting
You only crave the sun
My fair weather girl, this is farewell my girl
How I'll miss my fair weather girl