When We Spoke Words Lyrics

Repeat to me the words we wrote

When we wrote words

When we spoke words

The condensation of clouds

Touched our eyelashes

Joining the you standing meters from me

In a silent curiosity

You holding a dormant rage

Unfolding from the earth

We grew like trees do

But only like they grow in the wind

Like they grow in stormy weather

Leaning and hurting and heaving

Our leaves would stroke the wet ground

Scraping a few parts onto themselves

Until neither looked the same as the other

But neither looked like themselves either

To me we represent the process

From soil to cell

I lie low with my flaws

Un-flatter my soul

You raised me and placed me in the roots of your tree

Ruptured but nurtured

Made to breathe

Something like in

And out

Something like sound

Like shouts

Like the silence of a young girl powerless

At the hands of those who know not what they do

But know that what they do is wrong

The same pain for days, for weeks

That turns into years

And slowly passed on to lifetimes

Absorbed by generations to come

I plan to leave this planet

Without a sour taste in my mouth

I plan to leave it soft, unscathed

Restored to how my first me was

I want us to have a moment of silence

To mourn each and everyone we've lost