Quietly,

wondering eyes gaze upward

to the beauty,

to the horror,

to everything we’ve ever imagined,

and all that 

we couldn’t.

Patiently we open

our hearts, our hands

to infinity, and pull back

the clouds to get a glimpse

of what it means

to be magnificent.

And your soul is turning

over, under, in disarray

coming out through 

your mouth

and into mine

like snowflakes

on the tip of my tongue.

We bear in our minds

the fullness of life

the depth, the colour

your smile is the grace,

my feet are the passion,

carrying forth 

upward to every peak,

to every seashore

teeming with promise,

friendship,

discovery,

magick.

You gather drops of sunshine

in your tired hands,

and pocket silver moonbeams

and restless now,

hand-in-hand

our foundations shake

and the winds

sing to us secret songs

of everything it knows

as we fall further

into ourselves, into

each other, faced with new light

brave, uncertain

and anxious

but true.

Your eyes were dim

coloured like winter,

your hands were strong

but filled with fear

and they matched mine

as I sought shelter.

I whisper into your skin

eternal tales of the stars,

and you wonder why

they would stay and protect our tiny souls

and I don’t know,

but I know,

and it’s in your hands

wrapped around mine.

It’s in the solitude,

and in the wonder,

the secret to everything,

sought after with fresh hearts

and broken bones

but here among us

in the light of the darkness,

and in the warm of the winter

it shines in mystical splendor

the starlight of our bodies,

the cosmos of your eyes,

that bloom anew with every breath

it’s here,

it’s everywhere,

brightly wound in our hands

to carry forth

and outward, and down,

and as far as we can take it

until our eyes again

climb up

in search of everything

we’ve found,

and what we’ve

forgotten.

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I heard Johnny Clyde's "Electric Winter" and heard all of these different stories in the music, so I listened to it on repeat and wrote them out.

This is the first time I've ever written anything to music (although not for a song, per se), and it took a lot of rewinding and replaying but I like the way the words and the music go together.

So if anyone wants to do a reading set to the song (this piece isn't as long as the song is), that'd be swell.

<3C