there is so much of you in me,
sometimes it takes my breath away.
And i think that maybe we stopped time,
bottled it and put it into a locket,
and so these moments have never left me,
they stay nestled at the broken skin of my collarbones.
And because I knew you,
part of me will always be frozen,
at fifteen, sixteen, nine and ten.
watching the clock and counting the seconds,
writing in a diary that I should have let you read.
And because I knew you,
I'll never leave behind first kisses and acoustic guitars
playing love songs i don't recognize (even when i should, when you wished i would)
growing pains and metal fences and tear stained shoulders (and the way the stars look when they're reflected in your eyes)
the version of me that was yours,
the people that we were when we held the whole world in our hands and our hearts in our throats --
they'll never die.
the people we were to each other
are immortalized in the space between us.
tethered by the threads of time and fate
and stolen moments with stolen whiskey
connecting us at the ribs.
Because of you,
I will live forever
as a fifteen year old heartbreak
with chapped lips and hunched shoulders
and because of me,
you will live forever
as drunk and in love and a maybe little bit broken
with too many ghosts in your eyes.
we stopped time and built statues,
marble and bronze and ivy and elmers glue
and they'll crumble and rust
but they'll mark the hallowed ground
where our hearts will always beat too fast
encased in stone, and dipped in gold