Dream Life

  Maybe we're both lost Clueless to where we are Clueless to who we are You say life is great But don't look me in the face I'm struggling to understand You used to tell me everything Nervous and afraid You never did this before I thought I knew you I guess we outgrew us Now we're on separate paths Wondering where it all went wrong When it was there all along Stuck on the brave face But it faded in the awake of who are we became We are not lost We are no longer in love Dazed and youthful to the truth

                                            I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forever's, we have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we'd given up on asking love to come, I think that has to be part of its miracle. This is how we heal. I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I'm hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book. I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat on your skin. I will write novels to the scar of your nose. I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you. And I will not be afraid of your scars. I know sometimes it's still ha...