Beautiful

I stand on your shoulders to make me taller I love it when you tickle my toes The only person who can cradle my pain in weakness You cradle me You see life as it happens One day at a time The lotto number shoots up and you nod your head You’ll never win, but the pillows are soft on your bed You can stand on my shoulders too I’m as little as light And when your fingers touch the rays I kiss your forehead Hold the sun in place at your height And keep summer in its hour I’ll dance with the moon You look more beautiful in its light Our test was the magnet between us Two positives at both ends Can you swim? Can you swim? I can… *I find life in the condensation of your breath upon my mirror The image never mattered, oh these poor withering eyes we share We’ll never understand how beautiful they are You pull me down to the sediment Grain by grain, I learn to love it I’d catapult you into my world, but I’ve still got a lot to learn here wave by wave a new thought fills this modest heart of mine and you take it in stride your words are small most of the time maybe they don’t matter as much as I’d desire them to it’s true you never have to tell me a word but there is no heed in a starless sky my words for you possess a home in the twilight they glitter a prismed canopy, conquering the rays of the hiding sun hiding sun our love was the glue between us a magnet couldn’t stand a chance can you run? Can you run? I can… * beautiful like the verdant shelter from the tempered earth beautiful like your color in the storm beautiful like the snow provisional diamonds upon the lashes of your eyes carry me down, with the ease of the feathers that fall to the ground carry me down endlessly down… * 2005