Following the roads that lead along the river,
\nthe turns and washed out crevices that only we know.
\nUnder the shadows of moving clouds in the vast Kansas sky
\nI kissed you in a ring of watching oak trees,
\nthe first witnesses of my heart presented on bleeding paper.<\/p>\n
In the wildflower dance of that neverending afternoon,
\nI blanketed your body with the wounds I learned to heal
\nbefore my hand could hold steady enough to untie the ribbon in your hair.
\nSo I swallowed all of yesteryear\u2019s memories
\nto try and give you a real word,
\na purity from my lips untasted by any others but you.<\/p>\n
The trust in your crying eyes,
\nas if you had seen all of this happen before,
\nsomewhere not too different than here,
\nin a dream you use to dream when you were a little girl.
\nAnd the disappointment of reality became
\nthe tripping step of mad love, falling hard for the imperfections
\nof all our failed promises.<\/p>\n
I never wanted to be what hurt you the most,
\nor a painful chapter in the story you wrote
\nwith your skin and hair and lips and love.
\nIs there no other way to exist as close to someone as we have been?
\nOur pain preserved like rusting metal left in the fields,
\nwhere I saw the red tail resting on the fence,
\nhis face turned to the sky,
\nso that his eyes may better watch
\nthe movements upon the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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