I want old seconds
I don’t want hours
I want your thumb wiping a tear from my cheek
My body forgets what that kind of tenderness feels like
Maybe you’ll love me for the rest of your life
Maybe you’ll never get over it
search for parts of me in every woman after me
Maybe you won’t
Maybe you never loved me
Maybe I’ll love you for the rest of my life
but never want to be with you
Maybe I never loved you
(We know that part isn’t true, but it’s an interesting thought)
What if we loved each other
and the world cracked open with the weight of us
And what if it couldn’t handle
the way you looked at me in the moonlight
It couldn’t stand the church bells
chiming along to the kisses on my forehead
What if it couldn’t bear the summer heat under just a bedsheet
and the way electricity flooded our skin when we touched
What if the universe crumbled under our heavy hearts
What if we loved each other
and there was nothing that could hold us
No world that knew something so grand
What if we loved each other
and even your body ached
at the thought of carrying it for a lifetime
even your smile quivered
as you imagined trying to sustain such a feeling
What if we loved each other
and there was nothing we could do about the falling apart
What if we loved each other
and it was doomed from the start