• Once Again

    I remember the first time you whispered my name,
    and when I pressed my lips to you, you said "only once",
    but there's a clever trick I prepared for your
    heart. That sound comes around again
    and while you worry about who may hear
    it doesn't bother I

    I remember the way in which I
    first thought about you tinted with the color of your name
    it shouted in my brain so loudly I thought you might hear
    but as it always ends up, once
    you turn your head towards me again
    some voice inside of me stutters, knowing, "You're..."

    "You're...
    someone who's name I
    will want to feel. again. and again"
    your picture is pinned to my brain like a name
    tag. I try to smother my lit fuse auditory nerves but once
    you speak, I realize how far those thoughts are from here

    and when I hear
    the way you wrap your lips around your
    syllables, all at once,
    I'm memorized by the swing of your pendulum I
    forget everything but your name.
    I'm an astronaut burning against this atmosphere that is yours

    It seems like the sky, again,
    is going to turn pink, and bloody up the sunset. I can hear
    it gorging on daylight. Its become a memory stamped with your name
    like the moment in our every goodbye when I can look into your
    hand-carved eyes
    again, but only once.

    Once
    Again
    I
    Hear
    Your
    Name