There comes a time when you cannot trust today with someone you love
And your father can sing you into a dream and never wake up tomorrow
Choose the nights you wish to sleep in,
Wake through those with teeth and grasp everyone you think you cannot bury
And the day you write love and death in the same sentence,
Know that there is no bigger suffering left for you to bear.
When my lover promises beautiful things I can always tell she hasn’t found those herself
When she says I am handsome,
I can tell she knows what it feels to be ugly
When I hold her hand I can feel the broken dreams in her palm left behind from the night before
When I ask her what she thinks about our future she says,
She doesn’t know, but she knows, with or without me it’s no good
When she says she’s hungry I say wait a little more darling,
There will be a moonshine that will fill all our bellies
I believe, there is a love that will hold us all in its arms
There is a promised land that is not a reward for our deaths
Let the things that overwhelm us be forgotten
Let a cheerful bonhomie rise from the massacre,
Young corpses of lovers smiling with their hearts,
Holding hands like no dream is bigger than what they feel right now
Like everything worked out at the end
Like there is a sky where they are the stars
Published in Daily Times, November 27th 2018.