The Light Sometimes Twinkles

Remember when you knew how to tell a star from a planet
a star will twinkle
a planet will not

Indulge me for a moment because I have to digest this
we twinkle while we're here
loss, we can not plan it

God is a Wilco song
He is trying to break our hearts

And our friends are Flaming Lips
You have the most beautiful face

I gather my truths from memories
My tiny heart pumps
every day
thump
thump

thump

I swear to god it just skipped a beat
I've been thinking about you
I am thinking about you

My heart hurts with your memory
and that's never the way I wish to feel
so I will rearrange everything, for you

The light sometimes twinkles
for those who burn bright and make us feel alive

The light twinkles for you tonight

Metal

I had been dreaming about kittens and weddings
inevitable things that would happen soon and once I knew love

and now I am thinking about elbows again
knowing that love is everywhere
wondering why it is also taken from us

I find a pen outside my passenger door

and

it

just

hits

me

We are metal

Gold, silver, copper
characterized by a unique luster
when freshly fractured
brass
such a substance in its pure state
is
salt in a solution

It surprised me that I could still hear the sirens
through my open window
tonight
I thought
maybe
just for one night
nothing else
bad
could happen
but nothing can stop the world
not
even
you
or
loss

But I can stop myself
from ever worrying
again