Quieter than we were
Before I said I love you
An impromptu truth
Carried off by the ocean's tide
Lost to the vast great blue
Where sky and sea collide
Your brilliantly smooth smile
Against a disintegrating sky
Where love's words should reside
Your brilliantly smooth smile
Against a disintegrating sky
Where love's words should reside
My eyes, like a camera,
Angle toward your face
Your lips frozen as winter's breath
My heart falls like autumn leaves
Inescapable panic surges
Feelings now abandoned
I'm undone by the poverty of your reply
Instead there's a voiceless, exquisite smile
Your brilliantly smooth smile
Against my disintegrating sky
Where love's words should reside
Capture those words that flew
To pluck them from the wind
Undo their impact, erase their trace
Mend the wound when replaced
My heart constricts
With the need to seize
That spoken breath
It would be the sweetest theft
To have my love linger
In its captive space
Beneath my breath