meandpaul

How do you ride a bike?
How do you make the wheels turn?
How do you make everything fade away?

How do you let the moment
Fill you with emotion
That never leaves your heart?

There's a dog that sits at the end of my street, 
He snarls his teeth when we walk, 
He barks with his eyes wide open,
With his eyes full of rage and love. 

There's a dog that sits at the end of my street, 

And in that moment 
I thought it would last 
But truth won 
Because nothing that good 
Could stay for that long 
And after that year 
We went our separate ways 
We never took photos 

Every day that year 
I would look up at the sky 
At night it was black and blue 
With white stars 
Glowing bright above 
The Marfa lights 
The streetlights glowed 
Bright and bold

Orange, yellow, and red 
Swirled like a painter mixing his colors 
The brush strokes, light, heavy, loud 
A pallet of only the brightest colors 
Distracting him from the grip of life 

Late at night
Under the comfort of the fall air
I would sit on the roof
Watching the stars in the sky 
As the smell of the different seasons 
Comforts me 
With the same music as all those years ago