Before you read…
This piece is a little different from the others.
The words here are not mine alone.
This poem is a woven composition of lyrics inspired by the music of Snow Patrol, lines that stayed with me after listening again and again until they found their way into something new.
I felt something in them I could not ignore,
so I brought them together to express a feeling I did not yet have words for myself.
This is one of my favourites.
Not because I wrote it,
but because I felt it.
I know my name
and I know your name
and I’m not talking about hope
and I’m not talking about fire
I’m just trying to make sense of this desire.
Put your hand on my head
put your hand on my heart
and please don’t tell me
you can’t tell them apart.
I fell in love with you again
but I don’t know how to tell you of it.
Through the distance now to then
I still see the dark that you lit.
It wasn’t that I wasn’t feeling anything,
more like feeling everything at once.
All I know
is holding you is all I ever wanna know,
but maybe I’m not brave enough to tell you so,
but I don’t have the strength to watch you go.
This is not a love song
i’m just checking that your light’s still on.
I’ve not quite broken everything I’ve loved
that’s why I hold you in museum gloves.
They say that pride, it comes before the fall
so does silence, dear
so I guess this is a love song after all,
I think I might have lied before
I don’t recall.
The first snow
first winter of my life
the first dance
felt like my blood was built from crackling lights.
This is not the love you’ve had before
this is something else
this is life on earth
it’s just life on earth.
There is only you and me in this life
there is nothing for me in these past lives
there is only what I wasn’t yet
and if I made a mess of everything, dear
by being scared of what you give me,
I am sorry unequivocally.
I just don’t know how to love
Let me leave the part of me behind
that only wants to grieve
and in this light, I can see you as you are
in your frailty
in your might.
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