Angels and RobinsA Poem by GunMetalIt's sort of a poem about a song about a person. She's off somewhere being amazing.Before you walked off into the ocean to play catch with the backrush, before the months of long comfortable radio silence and stagnant static IPs, before the summer of Hummingbird and goodbye lessons, I penned a half written song dedicated to prescience. The melody was made to look forward. The lyrics were sung in slow dance. It goes like this. [Major lift] I’ve been preparing for a dream I always fall asleep to. Where distance is closed and gravity is optional. Where we can stand brazen beneath an ocean that won’t even whisper to spoil a memory. You can show me all of its secrets and I promise not to tell anyone because it’s hard to talk underwater. [Suspend] I can just move with you. When the current becomes now and you passively change all of the grey areas into lightshows. You are riptide motion under serenades laying shatter proof and full of breath. I make stationary look like a rest between notes before a cadence that just never seems to happen. [Cadence] I can’t help it if my hands shake. I can’t prove that I don’t get scared. My flaws are buoyant. I am not immune to the uprush. I just thought that maybe if I could spark a light from my spine tower, with my foghorns bellowing this slow dance, you might come back from the waves, for just a moment and show me how not to get swept away. And I will try. I have to. I want to prepare for a dream, I always wake up to. I hope the stars light up enough to read the North between my knuckles telling me I haven’t hit home yet. Not even close. [Ritenuto] But I’m getting there. My nostalgia still has a crush on you. I still haven’t properly learned goodbye. So until then, you can find me keeping the coast clear, slow strum style, with a half written song dedicated to prescience. Go. The horizon is shimmering and you are brilliant. I’ll be here. [Fade]
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Added on June 28, 2012Last Updated on June 28, 2012 AuthorGunMetalWish You Were Here, Alta Loma, CAAboutFirst off, if you have a Tumblr, feel free to follow me with the link up there next to my picture. Also, My Twitter. ------------------------------------------------- Find me somehow. My name .. more..Writing
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