Act I

We were quietly trespassing polar valleys in the night 

And all this high-altitude stillwater was driving you mad 

When I told you about the stars you did not comprehend

Did something in you open up?

When you learned that I burned beneath the water

A river soared toward me from your side

Had I told you not to hold back,

Would you come my way as the night went into dawn

I see you barren, beaten, and naked on earth

Walking all alone on sheer rock

As your bare foot touches the ground

Something flows in me

Right where the night falls onto glacier water

all I want is to undress your mind

Let you open me up

When we left

               ice crawled up all the way to our mountain 

Now you are a misplaced warden

And I, a faded fire

We are looking for solace on a foreign mountain

It will never take us 

We are orphaned on two lands distant 

I fear you will never leave me behind

a thousand year old silence

Frost caught our coalescence

we crown in tectonic chasms 

your slumber pulling us deeper 

I see you dive under 

to where the earth meets its birther

and I watch as your pith ignites

                 

 like ice catching fire

Act II

what a danger it has been 

sleeping in that valley with you 

I could feel your hairs rising

with every stellar love affair that came to life above our heads

come the next day, you crossed the river to where I lay

arming up and taking back 

the man you were when you were wild

what a feast it was to watch you against those ridges 

what a heist we were, when we were young

Paramount

like two ships that pass in the night

a curiosity among glacial valleys

in an everbearing silence

with an undone love

We met in the valleys you loved more than anyone else

We met,

and it was love in the nick of time

a glimpse of what could have been 

like two ships that pass in the night

the strike of a match and the fire that sparked me 

the strike of your match 

as you lit your cigarette 

and disappeared into the valley

Years passed, we remain stillborn

I got a hundred verses

and you are still in love with the same woman

I sit in cobalt blue and wonder, if you could have matched my wild heart


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