if i could write
i´d set all the words free
to follow you
tell you wonder, tell you secrets
and solitude
i´ve had to let go of so much
it´s hard to hold on now
something far off is pulling me
and when i go this time
i don´t think i´m coming back

--sam phillips

Naming the Stars

This present tragedy will eventually
turn into myth, and in the mist
of that later telling the bell tolling
now will be a symbol, or, at least,
a sign of something long since lost.

This will be another one of those
loose changes, the rearrangement of
hearts, just parts of old lives
patched together, gathered into
a dim constellation, small consolation.

Look, we will say, you can almost see
the outline there: her fingertips
touching his, the faint fusion
of two bodies breaking into light.

--Joyce Sutphen

everyday i feel more like shawn

"You guys have been together since before I even knew you. And if you're not, I guess I feel like there's nothing I can depend on. And it really makes me angry that there's nothing I can do to fix that."
Shawn on 'Boy Meets World,' to Cory and Topanga

es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido
--Pablo Neruda

i want my old friends
i want my old face
i want my old mind
fuck this time and place

--ani difranco

i can't tell you what i think
i can't tell you what i do
i can't tell you what i feel like doing with you
--The P.Laquers

now we speak with ruined tongues
and the words we say aren't meant for anyone
just a mumbled sentence to
a passing acquaintance
but there was once you
--bright eyes