Bent Universe

We were lyin’ on the grass, starin’ at the stars; drinkin’ from a bottle, eatin’ candy bars. I said death was closer than we thought – that life was a gun and we were all a single shot. You told me there were more lives to come – the one we were living wasn’t the first one. So I asked if we knew each other before – if we never really died, what’d we ever die for? You said death was a fulfillment of our vision to come back new and apply all our wisdom – death was graduation; the classroom was youth; beauty was an illusion and scars were proof. You said death could never separate our souls – that we’d always be in love, maybe just in different roles. I stared into space until it started to bend; I felt your eyes on me and wished it’d never end. I heard my heart crying like a siren, and knew some angel had witnessed everything. I reached out my hand to run my fingers through your hair; I caressed the oxygen as if you were really there. I made you promise we would reunite if I took you for granted, and took my own life. I knew I had the wisdom if I could have another chance, but I had to regress in order to advance. Cuz heaven was never a place that I’d found, and I’d been livin’ in Hell since you weren’t around. You told me tears looked like they sounded – you could shed a million, but they’d never be counted – that you can see heaven if you really want it – that Hell’s just a day when time is haunted – that wisdom doesn’t come from being selfish – that help doesn’t arrive by acting helpless. I said death was closer than we thought – that life was a gun and we were all a single shot.