sometimes I breathe in
and forget to breathe out
again
do you remember the night
the sun never set
we caught it
and held it in our hands
and woke up tasting honey
we danced until
the strings in our shoes
turned to nothing
and then fell into
the open arms of
summer dreams
you told me I had hair of gold
and you of silver
before you wove flowers
made of hope into
my heart
and pushed me off
every cliff we found
over and over
trying to show me
that I don’t have to be
scared of falling
that I won’t always
fly
sometimes I still
dream of mint and chamomile
and falling out of hammocks
and laughing as
we turn sugar sweet and
dive head first into
lakes filled with sunsets and
brief goodbyes
we stood out on the beach
and buried our toes and our worries
in sand
and stood in ice cold waves until
we forgot our names
and we wondered about
love and pineapples and
if the crabs that
dug beneath our feet
got lonely
and now we write each other's
names in books we will never
see again
and wish
on suns that went dim
before time took its first breath
and hoped that
holding the sun in our
palms wouldn’t start to burn
so we shoved it into our chests
and held the pieces in our hearts
and now you’re 3,665 miles
away
speaking words I can’t pronounce
and I was supposed to be
there for you when you were falling through
rabbit holes
but instead i am falling too
but in the opposite direction
I have 5,110
strings tied from my heart to yours
and sometimes when you break down
they tug
and now I don't know what to say
because you're the one who is made
of concrete and titanium
the one who glues me back together
when I throw myself
at brick walls
and now the girl with
constalations on her cheeks
is making you crack
and we don't breathe as
easy because the sun in our chest burned away our wonder
and now we worry about every
peice of plastic clogging the ocean
and bullets jumping from guns
6,000 miles away
and I want to go back to the day
when you told me to stop crying
as you held my heart together
and blood poured from my arm
so I do
and fall back into what sunshine looked like
in 2009
and forget to breathe out
again
do you remember the night
the sun never set
we caught it
and held it in our hands
and woke up tasting honey
we danced until
the strings in our shoes
turned to nothing
and then fell into
the open arms of
summer dreams
you told me I had hair of gold
and you of silver
before you wove flowers
made of hope into
my heart
and pushed me off
every cliff we found
over and over
trying to show me
that I don’t have to be
scared of falling
that I won’t always
fly
sometimes I still
dream of mint and chamomile
and falling out of hammocks
and laughing as
we turn sugar sweet and
dive head first into
lakes filled with sunsets and
brief goodbyes
we stood out on the beach
and buried our toes and our worries
in sand
and stood in ice cold waves until
we forgot our names
and we wondered about
love and pineapples and
if the crabs that
dug beneath our feet
got lonely
and now we write each other's
names in books we will never
see again
and wish
on suns that went dim
before time took its first breath
and hoped that
holding the sun in our
palms wouldn’t start to burn
so we shoved it into our chests
and held the pieces in our hearts
and now you’re 3,665 miles
away
speaking words I can’t pronounce
and I was supposed to be
there for you when you were falling through
rabbit holes
but instead i am falling too
but in the opposite direction
I have 5,110
strings tied from my heart to yours
and sometimes when you break down
they tug
and now I don't know what to say
because you're the one who is made
of concrete and titanium
the one who glues me back together
when I throw myself
at brick walls
and now the girl with
constalations on her cheeks
is making you crack
and we don't breathe as
easy because the sun in our chest burned away our wonder
and now we worry about every
peice of plastic clogging the ocean
and bullets jumping from guns
6,000 miles away
and I want to go back to the day
when you told me to stop crying
as you held my heart together
and blood poured from my arm
so I do
and fall back into what sunshine looked like
in 2009
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