Firsts (Over and over Again)

AND YOU SAID QUIETLY COME OVER

AS IF NOTHING COULD GO WRONG AND SO I DID

AND I LAY THERE

AS YOU ANSWERED QUESTIONS THAT I HAD NEVER ASKED

AND WOULD NOT HAVE

THE WORLD SHOOK VIOLENTLY BUT YOU TOOK MY HAND

AND SAID COME ON

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR WHISPERED SO DECIDEDLY THERE’S ONLY NOW

BEFORE YOU KISSED ME ON THE MOUTH AND WE LAUGHED PRIVATELY

SEE NOW IS THAT SO BAD BUT OH IT WAS

CAUSE EVERYTHING HAD CHANGED WONDERFUL AND STRANGE

AND I ASKED YOU

IF I COULD COME OVER AGAIN

THE DAYS PASSED STRIDENTLY WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF YEARS

AND YOU WERE CLOSER TO ME NOW THAN MY OWN SKIN

SINGING DEFIANTLY SOMEWHERE INSIDE OF ME

IN THE LANGUAGE OF MORNINGS BUT THINGS CHANGE SILENTLY AS NOW BECAME THEN

ALL TURNED TO SOME AND THEN NONE

ALWAYS BECAME ONCE WHEN

I COULD COME OVER AGAIN

OVER AND OVER AGAIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN