If we were to be reborn

I'd choose to be a firefly

(I never liked my name

Or my teeth

Or how my hands shook)

I hope you would be one too

So that we could dance

Like we always used to do

In circles

Carving our portraits of yellow light

(But when you said my name

Took my hands and we danced

I felt your warmth)

And as we fly

Following one another

We would dance

For the rest of our short and bliss filled lives

(You left marks of your beauty

I'll always remember you as August

Your birthday,

When Autumn came, and you did too)

The only light we'd live for

Would be each others

(I'll bare through this shadow I've made

and wait for your dawn)

After us, after me

You'll have to remember me for longer than I knew you

(Even after stars die

There light is visible for years beyond

Our love is like that light

Something that would linger into other worlds forever)

You're my star, don't you ever forget that.

You have this spark—this light inside you that Nothing in the universe can ever change

(You're my Star

And Your light reflects off of me)

(And because of these shards of sunlight

that you left me)

And now you'll hold my light too

And I know that

(I hope you know)

You'll keep shining

Always

So? What do you choose to be?