Snowflake Stars and Broken Hearts - a Dark Poetic collection

c'mon

it's getting late, and i
cannot seem to find my way home tonight

it's dark, love.
and we're lost.
so you smile and say,
we're on an adventure.
i love that about you.
i love everything about you.

you taught me how to get lost
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

feels like i am facing down a rabbit hole
falling for forever, wonderfully wandering alone.

i fell for you so hard
i never really had a choice about loving you.
it just happened.
i fell for you,
and you were there to catch me.

you taught me how to fall
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

what would my head be like
if not for my shoulders or without your smile
may it follow you forever,

you flipped through your playlist
every time i was sad
you found the perfect song.
you could fix everything.
you could even fix me.

you taught me how to trust
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

may it never leave you to sleep in the stone
may we stay lost on our way home?
c'mon, c'mon, with everything falling down around me
i'd like to believe in all the possibilities

when we got lost hiking,
sometimes deliberately, when i was struggling with life
we'd stay out overnight
staring at the stars.
you told me that the stars would always listen,
even when no one else would.
i promised to always listen to you.

you taught me how to believe
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

if i should die tonight, may I first just say i'm sorry,
for i never felt like anybody,
i am a man of many hats
although i never mastered anything

the first time i met you was at a suicide support group.
i had been forced to go,
and you helped me heal.
i showed you my drawings
and played the ukulele for you

you taught me how to live again
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

though i am ten feet tall, i've never felt much smaller
since the fall, nobody seems to know my name

i hated the spotlight, always have.
you chased away the journalists asking questions
about the anonymous 'suicide girl'
in the one stoplight town.

you taught me how to hide in plain sight
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

try not to mistake what you have with what you hate
it could leave, it could leave come the morning.

sometimes i screamed at you
when what i really hated was myself
i chased you away, but you always, always came back

you taught me how to let it all out
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

celebrate the night, it's the fall before the climb
shall we sing, shall we sing until the morning

oh, we loved the night, you and i.
i loved stars, darkness, fires and forests
you loved nightclubs, parties, alcohol and fun
you dragged me to parties
and i took you camping.
we complained, but anything was good,
as long as we were together.

you taught me how to party properly
you taught me how to sing like nobody's there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

if i fall forward, you fall flat
and if the sun should lift me up would you come back?

it was my fault.
of course it was.
you were perfect, and i was just me.
and now, i was just me, alone.

you taught me how to be heartbroken
you taught me how to sing like i've been there
you taught me how to listen to lyrics
you taught me how to love

it's getting late, and i
cannot seem to find my way home tonight

because you are my home.