Because You Don't Fade — Pedro Johnson
Your eyes are doves descending to the pools we went to drink
Whose wings flutter so gently, bathe white feathers in the ink
They’re like the pen which must have wept our names right through the page
Which wrote of our affections in the place where we had time
And lingered there for us to bleed onto another line
We bled, we bled all the way through
We stayed, because you don’t fade
It feels like we grew up together somewhere that’s no more
In a land with fields for running to our blanket on the threshing floor
What did we call each other there beneath the folds of our brocade?
We woke up older, when I met you, I still recognized your laughter
How could I ever lose you in the space between two chapters?
We bled, we bled all the way through
We stayed, because you don’t fade
I cry when I contemplate how you care with such conviction
Searching the whole world for life’s beautiful contradictions
Everything you do goes straight into my heart just like a blade
And the subsequent emergency makes me ever so aware
Of how the footsteps of my heart could be responding to our ancient prayer
We bled, we bled all the way through
We stayed, because you don’t fade
You don’t need to be with me to be next to me tomorrow
You warned me from the start that this could only end in sorrow
But when I see you and I hear your voice, my heart is unafraid
‘Cause I’ll leave traces of my soul for you in every word I write
So that we’ll always find each other, voices in a distant night
We bled, we bled all the way through
We stayed, because you don’t fade
“Once more to die and rise the same,” the words of Old Yehuda
I can’t imagine futures for myself that don’t somehow include ya
I said, “In another life,” and then you said you couldn’t wait
Maybe one day we’ll look into each other’s eyes and think
“You remind me of that old song about dove feathers bathed in ink”
We bled, we bled all the way through
We stayed, because you don’t fade
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