we go to bed ’round the same time each night
and wake up miles away

not sayin’ i can love you
but there are times your lips remind me of home
your hands seem to hold the dreams
i’ve only spoken into my pillow
and i wonder if you feel the same

if i asked you to wake up with me just one day
do you think you’d stay?
do you think you could bury the hurt?
would you trust that my words are simply words?
would you let me hold your whole life
when i can only love you with half my heart?
cause there’s a piece of it that i lost somewhere
and i no longer care to find it

i will offer you shelter
i will offer you a cup of sanity within our storm
and if you wake up with me for just one day
i will offer you this space over my heart
and for that one day
you’ll be warm

tomorrows are just a fistful of sand
i have a bottle for the grains we gift each other
you keep half the cork
and if this should ever fill
we will ride to the coast together
drop it in
and let it float
—

“what is it about…”

#poetvolley by JTW and mujerzen aka @artemisretreats
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