That Knock at Your Throat’s Door

I am playing a piano tuned to the key of a moving train, realizing certain songs sound like lives not yet fully at rest.

We come and we go. We rise and we fall.

It can take a long time to love someone who only loves themselves as long as it takes to type their bio on a ghost.

It can take a long time to truly see yourself in a mirror without any ghosts getting in the way.

We’re confetti and quicksand, cathedrals and cliches.

Sometimes we’re even here and gone before the end of the song.

Quick, while I have your attention, may our bruises serve as light bulbs,

and any lost voices find their way home before sunrise.

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