Aix

Aiming for the waterfront

I felt like quite an enthusiast

Silence never came, I sat writing our names

In the sand that the backwash took fast

We do need each other's company

If only to describe

Mountains shaped steep like giant bodies sleeping

Covered by a sheet that runs for miles

You and I have decided to try to avoid

Thinking in terms of what we're downright terrified of losing

Early morn, you sing your song

Saying, “Sleepy golden storm”

We have other lives we live together while

In this one we work up ways of saying, “We tried”

With our busy hands on strangers' lands

Our breaths are held in tight

Left on the headlights in the middle of the night

Though the darkness holds the prettiest of sights

Oh, your eyes can't be denied, they see the tiniest of lives

You and I have decided to try to avoid

You and I have been doing just fine

Drinking others' wine, preoccupied

By time that passes

Oh, how will we ever remember?