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If my eyes were cast in amber
Instead of shades of grey
Would the shadows stretch as long
At the closing of the day?

If I walked a stranger’s rhythm
With a heavy, hurried stride
Would I recognize the secrets
That I currently hold inside?

Perhaps the stars would shift their axis
Or the moon would change its hue
But I wonder if the silence
Would still lead me back to you.

The skin might be a costume
The name a borrowed light
But the ache of being human
Stays the same throughout the night.

I would know the shape of your soul’s quiet light,
If the sun were extinguished and world fell to white.
In the crush of a crowd or the silence of snow,
The pull of your gravity is all I would know.

We have drifted through eons of shimmering mist,
By the breath of the cosmos and starlight been kissed.
Perhaps we were strangers on a merchant’s old ship,
With a name meant for me on the edge of your lip.

Or maybe we waited where the stars come to die,
Two sparks of the same fire in a limitless sky.
No matter the century, the language, or land,
My spirit would reach for the curve of your hand.

For time is a curtain and flesh is a veil,
A ghost of a map on a celestial trail.
I’ll find you in empires, in ruins, in rain—
And I’ll wake up and love you all over again.