If you were to come to me in the form
of a paper person linked by the knuckles
of other paper people, I would decorate
you with thick markers and call you
my soldier. I'd crown you in yellow smudges,
give you a sword out yarn and some cheap
glue.

You came to me in the form of a leftover
sports player with knees that needed therapy
and a size too big gym shorts. I fell for the sound
of you hitting your head off the microwave
when we were trying to kiss in my kitchen,
the way your hair felt in the spaces between
my fingers, how you always took the left
sock off before the right. I made you
into the paper figure next to mine, the half
who's creases matched up perfectly,
who we wanted the same exact things
as I. If you were to come to me now
in the form of water I'd boil you to make tea.
I'd put three sugars into you when you beg
me for none. I'd make you into some tragedy
that I'd hide underneath my bed in the way
of nasty journal entries and tired poems.
I'd love you like a miracle, like a prayer,
when really you are just a guy
who loves funny movies and can't
wake up for breakfast on time.

The smoke of a cowards heart
   snuffs out the flame
     leaves no chance for a spark
Swirls and dances with the vision
  of the lost chance of a first kiss
And haunts with the question of
  what mite have been
My eyes are burning and I'm
  choking on doubt
And I can't stop fanning the embers
  deep inside a cowards heart

Could I ever be yours
My skin, my blood, my bones
Could you ever be mine
Your heart, your mind, your soul
I've been here before
Overwheling and madly in love
I've been here before
And I've been here dreaming of you
And I've been selfish and greedy
  and drowning in doubt
And I've kept this love all to myself
Never brave enough to risk
Never brave enough to dare
Never brave enough to write
The words that circumvolve
  around my skin, my blood, my bones
And if I found the courage
Could you be mine
Your heart, your mind, your soul
Could I be yours
Or will I always be walking this lonely
  shore
Lost and in love where ever grain of sand
  whispers your name
Dreaming and dreaming and dreaming
  alone

It's the train wreck we crash our planes into
Its the empty mess we pile our dead hearts on
Its the thing we cannot break thats always broken
That painful beauty
This thing called love

For a brief moment all my troubles disappeared
And I fell in love as if you were here
But it was just a picture that stole my heart

All I want to know is what what makes
  her beautiful
Is she just a dream lost here amongst us all,
  this can't be her home
Did she fall down from the night, a star so
  full of light
Some might say its how she smiles
Or the way she wears her hair
Or the swirls of magic in her eyes
And I can't deny that she's the look
  of perfection
But there's something we just can't see
And thats where the answer hides
To what makes her so beautiful

If I asked
Would you answer...
If I begged
Would you accept...
If I cried
Would you belive..
If I told you
Would we...
Be lovers
In the same bed
Dreamers
That share the
Same cloud
Would my heart
Be yours
Forever
And would you
Give me your heart
To hold
For all time
Or would
These words
Written
Never be spoken
Never be answered
Never belived
And your kiss
Only a dream
Only a wish
Only a lonely fist
A missed chance
Time and again
Dreamt into something
More
Your skin
To never touch
Mine
Just empty sheets
In an empty bed
As I whisper
Your name
Myself seeps out
As lust and love
Tangle
But its not
You
On top
Of me
Just a
Mist
A ghost
A hope
Could I stop
Should I try
To end
This dream
And just
Accept
It only
Works as
A fantasy
Maybe
If I just told...
Maybe
If I just said...
Maybe
If I just ask...

Do you know its you
The one that I want
The one that I love
Just last night
I imagined you
Sitting beside me
I imagined the
Heat of your hand
Holding mine
I imagined your
Beautiful smile
Your beautiful lips
I imagined a soft kiss
I imagined your hand
In mine all night
Until the curtain closed
And then I drove home alone
I wanted to call or write
Tell you I wish you were here
Tell you I miss you
Tell you...
But instead I crawled
Into my empty bed
And settled for something less

Why do I love you
Why does this passion
Grip my heart so tight
Always left dreaming
Of you
Both when I'm asleep
And when I'm awake
And I imagine you
Sitting near
Your hand and mine
Holding down the night
My heart and yours
Beating and naked
On an endless shore
Love never dying
Finding eternity
With a simple kiss
I would find
An endless bliss
If you only knew
Why I love you