I could promise you forever
as I stuttered through hellos
we've said one too many times
while avoiding the fallings of goodbye
from our tangled, twisted tongues,
but we both know promises snap like thread
when faced with fates that might come true
and I can't lie to you
when your eyes are twinkling smiles across my cheeks.
Truth be told,
I don't know what to think
when it seems that hearts
fail just as easily as alcohol-dependent livers
when words are whiplashed from the tonsils
to break upon the eardrums,
but at the same time that stars are shooting through the sky
with all the couples torn apart by spiteful sentences,
souls separated mere moments before the plunge
have linked their fingers through someone else's palms
and are claiming they have found eternity
in the constellations of another's midnight canvas.
And I don't know what to tell you
when it would appear that moving on
has become as simple as the art of adding two and two together,
because arithmetic's laws have been rewritten,
and while adding one and one always seems to give you two,
subtracting one from two leaves you holding nothing more
than the pieces of your shattered heart
and the strings that once held you together.
I don't know what to think
when a stumble sometimes brings more
than just your balance down,
the air you pull into your lungs
seems only to burn within your chest
as if there's no place for it to go,
and the world you see beyond your tears
looks as if it cracks more and more each day,
though there's nothing you could ever do
to repair the way you've crumbled into heartdust
and fairytales you've closed the pages on.
I could sit here and promise you forever,
vowing my pinkies to the sunsets of tomorrow
that goodbye will not cross the boundaries of our lips
so long as we meet each other in the middle,
but I know that ribbons fray and tatter
after too many years of use
and what's the point in building up our hopes
when the world has shown us time and time again
that nothing but the galaxies stretch on until eternity
and even those are bound to burn out
and fade away?
I could promise you forever,
because that's the phrase my heart is screaming
for me to let go of and let fly,
but forever has never found it's way to us before...
and you deserve more than a lie...
