i find you in doorways
beneath mats in the quiet evenings
on the floorboards of time
we bask in questions
just to feel
a sense of time worth living
i found essence in satin
a touch wrapped in uncertainty
frayed by absence
fingers undone
still time worth living
i ask you to ask yourself
does time ever feel
like words slipping from your tongue
rivers and lakes
drowning in their own depths
music keeps a beat
words fall
and still you believe everything
i surrender to you
to us
to the thought that belief
could turn left from right
shift beyond reason
twisting timelines
lemons sting
between my eyes
i always spoke
i always took
i always could
feel you
in my time
in my life
between the lines
in the freckles of your eyes
i loved you in theory
and theories
got the best of us
we danced until
we could but never would
i lift my aces
trace my edges
reach for what
might have been more than this
the fine lines of your lips
how a smile
could vanish
between midnight
and sometime