SHINING THROUGH

When things feel too close
you turn and you leave...

You turn and you walk
and you leave me to grieve...

Why do you go?
Why can't you see?

Is it so hard to stay?
Why can't you believe...

...that this boy of ice
burns the same as you do?

If only you'd stay
then you would see it too:

The way that your spark
fragments my resistance...
The way my eyes darken
as skin feels the distance
between naked bodies -
celestial and other...

We could be so much more
if we just had each other.

Written By Jason Wright
DECEMBER 31, 2006

for Bobby Drake & John Allerdyce

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