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and ashes.

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Published: Apr 30, 2009

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_{and ashes.</b>

6.
when the sun sleeps, we'll sing songs for a kingdom lost, you said
and we waited until the witching hour had passed to sit, me at the piano
and your fingers dancing across the fretboard of your deep blue acoustic.
we told the moon to pull the tides in closer
we told the moon we wished to be enveloped in the ocean's black
and now i lay in sand and wish again without you.

5.
smoke pools between your lips and disintegrates into the cold.

4.
you laughed all soft like silk when i insisted the sea would wash around our sand angels.
you told me that i hope too much, and that was the moment i lost the ability to be an optimist.

3.
the forecast was for rain but i once had a summer beneath a scorching sun.
i had an energy burning between my animal-cage ribs
and did you know that once there was a lady who bought the ugliest
dresses she could find in the hope she'd look beautiful in comparison?

2.
you are a child, and you play a child's game, you said
and my wingbones were denting the body of your mother's car
as we counted the night's dying stars. we wished on every one
but i believe we were hoping for very different things.

1.
hush now, the quiet intimacy of night will embrace us
if we close our eyes tight and pretend we're the last.}