I Can Live With You

I can live with you

In the end

after ash settles

and the raging fires die

Once the blue skies fade

to grey

and my hands fail to tremble

I can live with you

You can follow me back

through the door, into the house,

through the paint, and the fire,

and the glass

and finally

into my bed.

You can laugh with me at dawn

and cry with me at dusk

and I can live with you

And on I'll go

through concrete webs

and carpeted trails

and sometimes I'll forget you're with me.

I'll become uncannily lost

in this fluorescent sea

and sink past any light at

the surface

and I can live with you

I can ignore the bumps

the bruises

the cuts

the scars

the bending and

the breaking

and I can live with you

I can ignore the blue blood

splattered on my mirror

I'll second guess the purple

in the sunset

I'll pretend the snow

doesn't reflect the moonlight

and the moon doesn't shine

from your eyes

and I can live with you

I can live with a

crumpled heart in my pocket

I can live with a 

tattered, worn out bedspread

I can live with broken mirrors

broken shoelaces

broken thermostats

frozen vodka

frozen eyelids

frozen tonsils

burning hair

burning toes

burning words

and a burning heart

and I can live with you

I can live with the film

of a golden age gone by

I can live with the scripts we wrote

the lines we said

the costumes we wore

and the masks we made

tucked away in my closet

and I can live with you.

I can live with you.

But I swear to God

I won't forget you.

I won't forget 

the beauty in the breakdown,

the ever ending freezing

of an infinite fire

smoking into the heavens.

And I'll live with every scar on my arms

and wound in my heart

forever.

I will not regret a single tear

a single laugh

a single cry

a single whisper.

I'll dream of the

promises we made

and the words we shared

I'll dream of your hands

grazing scars across 

my back

and I'll dream

and dream

until 

my eyes burn

and my lips freeze.

And I won't forget you

and the way your eyes

danced under the glow of

the purple moonlight.

I swear to God.