Please don’t lose hope in me out there
Your eyes go from blue to purple to green
I can’t touch you through the glass plane
But I can see you sitting, so I stare
Our world is equivalent of a million tiny bubbles
I blow with the breath you breathe into me
You can look but don’t touch
You can touch but don’t make the memory
So many things to remember
When I have enough on my mind already
I want to spin but not get too dizzy
Spin with me and let’s do it steady
We can go from sunlight streaked with amber
And swim through the stories that we’ve told
And behind my eyes the moonlight spills glitter
And everything we touch, it turns to gold
You can believe it
You just cannot think too hard
We can be soaked green as Peter Pan
I shiver as your fingers brush my hand
Don’t worry, don’t wonder.
I’ll talk to you on a painted doorstep
I’ll walk with you and never stop, if that is what you want
So I want this to be all that I see
I want all of this to become me
I want to soak this in like an empty child
I don’t claim perfection even as I’m standing on it
I don’t call flawless when I touch it
The porcelain mathematics, such a small bit of this
It’s something like a simple state of being
You touch it . . . and the bubbles pop
You look too carefully . . . but I, you wouldn’t dare
And I could spin this earth into my hands
In this shimmering, crystalline air



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