I've been a little.... pensive??? ....lately.
Maybe it's the age I'm hitting, maybe it's watching one too many movies about love
and mortality
and all that shit.

I love being in love.
And I love seeing people in love.
But there's that little twist that lovers try ever so hard not to acknowledge.
but it's worked it's way into a cliche
Love and loss...
the rose and the thorn...
blah blah blah.

We try not to think about the inevitable truth that eventually the one we love will leave us
- and we will be alone.
Or
that we will leave the one we love behind
- and abandon them to their fear.

One way or the other
despite what all the pretty cards say
we won't always be together
and the one time it counts
i won't be able to save you

i would rather turn away from that thought in denial
than dwell upon it in truth
but it's always there somewhere
tugging a little in my mind

and this thought is always there somewhere



There is so much that I want
to do with you
to experience with you
to share with you

and so little that i'd want to do without