Amplexus

Handbook For the Recently

Amplexus


I swear I felt the earth move 
Do we still exist? 
My hands are gray and foreign 
The sand beasts have a violent glare 
We are just smoke and mirrors 
Our substance beneath the dust in our wedding's finest 
We die and they live 
I swear you cast a lovely shade on my eyes 
It's all in my head. we didn't survive? 
We die and watch them live 
For one hundred twenty-five years 
We find a way to live for one hundred twenty-five years 
This is so surreal 
A soul dispossession and we've been evicted 
The life we were building it no longer stands 
We'll haunt with a vengeance. 
Persist through the ages. 
We just want our home back. 
Why won't you go? 
Will we be together? 
I think not. But hold my hand. 
Gazing into the starlight we know fright 
Let's watch them squirm… 
Has it ever occurred to you that there are things that can never be taught? 
And it's not that their faster or stronger, their just born with a little extra 
When our time is over, we'll go hand in hand. 
You're so beautiful as you waste away. 
As we stand here with death I will never forget 
So grind the chalk against the wall 
And venture down the sideways hall.