If I died in a distant land<\/p>\n
The leaves would sweep me up<\/p>\n
I would be reborn again<\/p>\n
To follow you, wherever you go<\/p>\n
And I\u2019d wait for you to open up the door<\/p>\n
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You floor me so<\/p>\n
The more and more I know you<\/p>\n
That blue feeling retreats<\/p>\n
To somewhere far undertow<\/p>\n
And sure I\u2019d like to reach the light<\/p>\n
But I fear any afterlife<\/p>\n
above or below, I couldn\u2019t be long<\/p>\n
If you weren\u2019t there to make it home<\/p>\n
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And if I\u2019d lived<\/p>\n
A second more<\/p>\n
That in death I\u2019d have no memories<\/p>\n
Linger from my life before<\/p>\n
The day I met you I was reborn<\/p>\n
And I\u2019d die a thousand times<\/p>\n
Never forgotten, or alone<\/p>\n
And yet for all the tears we cry<\/p>\n
For although we\u2019ve felt forlorn<\/p>\n
Even a scent or tincture of you<\/p>\n
Is a reason to be born<\/p>\n
In the sand or in the sky<\/p>\n
Wherever God is breathing life<\/p>\n
Forever those churning nebulae<\/p>\n
Who for a thousand years and more have formed our outlines<\/p>\n
below the stars<\/p>\n
and mirrored upwards evermore<\/p>\n
Yet In the face of pooling dread<\/p>\n
The brink of never-ending death<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t falter from what I\u2019ve sworn<\/p>\n
I would choose you again instead<\/p>\n
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And if in your eyes I looked for the last time<\/p>\n
With no lifeline ahead of me<\/p>\n
The end of Earth and of all things<\/p>\n
Every single star to ever be<\/p>\n
I\u2019d see then a fuller hue, laying deep inside of you<\/p>\n
The kind that gaseous light burned for eons to produce<\/p>\n
So when your heart finds its trust<\/p>\n
And when the hate is let loose<\/p>\n
When the sadness leaves us<\/p>\n
And all traces of who we were are scarce<\/p>\n
Well<\/p>\n
It was enough<\/p>\n
My love<\/p>\n
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They tell me to find god<\/p>\n
But to hold on I had to decide I wasn\u2019t alone<\/p>\n
So I blindly flung myself into what was keeping me alive<\/p>\n
Love is the name of the thing unquestioningly<\/p>\n
for which I would die<\/p>\n
Likewise I decide I live once, thrice, or 400 times<\/p>\n
From the first birth to the last stroke of the sun slicing the Earth<\/p>\n
I would rather smoke line the horizon than be buried cold in the dirt<\/p>\n
Every word is a war waged against hatred and the dark<\/p>\n
Her arms are so warm, more than passion they remind me who we are<\/p>\n
Our names will last into the abyss that swallows the stars however bright<\/p>\n
Our love will last into the absence<\/p>\n
And wound the dark with scar light<\/p>\n
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James Friedman If I died in a distant land The leaves would sweep me up I would be reborn again To follow you, wherever you go And I\u2019d wait for you to open up the door You floor me so The more and more I know you That blue feeling retreats To somewhere far … <\/p>\n