Felt Valley Lyrics

I think about you all the time

I think about you all the time

I see you run across my mind

Been on this journey just to find

I felt the pressure watch me shine

Doing my best just to be kind

I won't press rewind

Whenever tears come I forget what good they do

I lay waste their use

Not unafraid but unwilling to waste pearls of salt

Even the empathic can feel apathy

Because it is a survival skill

The unrequited quest to feel... love

No, weighted

Deconditioned to know bounds of joy, like words

All absent when my tears come

People watching I get none from, like fear

But in their presence these words hum

The deaf vibration of digitus stokes

Meaningless outside of what they were intended to provoke

Profound if only in the ways they could be percieved

Bound, like love, in the ways they can be understood

A felt valley the shape of an anatomically correct heart

No longer a symbol, no longer arbitrary

But a testament to truth of a star-crossed youth

Begging to be blood that pumps through this valley

The smell of dryer sheets in an alley: scent of action, a rally

A ventricle surrounds giving me shelter, me providing me space

A flutter in pace with long arms wrapped around your waist

Caressing just the right place

I think not to fear this godly way

I aim not only to talk but to pray

I count blessings to measure and say

Thank you for blessing me with you today

Thank you