To Love Another

She tilted down her head, and brushed her hair aside And lifted up that holy gaze beneath her eyelids Her beating lashes were the witnesses that heard Every single word she wouldn't say, but I did And when her lips came back to touch after a smile She pressed them way too hard, so they would reconcile Their color darkened to a red Of every blood of every dead That ever dared to love another To love another She pulled her head aside, and when she brought it back I swear a little broken girl was in her body And as a prophecy went trickling down her cheek She said, "Don't you think to fall is just to study?" And when the scar upon her lip was glued to mine All of the stars in all the skies had to align And then we both just disappeared In every hope and every fear Of what it means to love another To love another Another day was passing in her eyes I realised She never said "I love you" in the morning But as I watch the sunset in her gaze there is a haze Of night that doesn't want to heed the warning And when she parts her lips to wet them with her tongue They bear the weight of every word of every song And I am left there in that chair Without a clue, without a care Insisting I can love another I can love another Her eyes were searching in my soul, I asked her what it is she saw She answered only with her silence But then she took a pen and drew an entire ocean made of blue And in it, falling, were two islands And through her lips I felt the beating of her heart I named the upper lip "The End", the lower lip "The Start" I said I'll never let them touch I want to open them so much We'll never stop to love another To love another