the night the rain smelled like nightshade
like a man coming home from war
I laid my head on your chest<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that is to say I weighed my thoughts of self betrayal
against your dancing heart
to see if our love was a wound we shared<\/p>\n\n\n\n
or if I waltzed alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
throwing myself against your skin
like the rain on the glass
by which we once counted the hours we had spent apart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when I could have just thrown stones
something that would bruise
have left some part of me with you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to weigh heavier than the last feather
an angel could have bartered with
in hopes to stay the hand beckoning them to fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
but as I moored that sinking ship
somewhere in the hills
where the moon had split in two<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the radio mumbled a song
that we’d forgotten the words to<\/p>\n\n\n\n
about a man marooned
in the blue between midnights
never again to depart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and right then I knew
we who bloom at night
play no part in dark<\/p>\n\n\n\n
because someday
love
our scar in time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
will call us home at last
from the hindsight tides
of unlived pasts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and see itself unmasked<\/p>\n\n\n\n
never to depart again
from our dancing hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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