When Time Resumes

To the place

where the silence began I

return

like I’ve always been

One breath hanging over the room

Dust in the light,

familiar perfume I know the floor,

I know the door I know what I came looking for Your

outline moves behind the glass Like something waiting in the past You

turn around, the whole world bends

And everything begins

again

I know this feeling

I know that look Like finding my name

In a half-burned book

It feels like the first time again Like I don’t know how

this will end Like we haven’t already been Broken and buried beneath

our skin

It feels like the first time again

One touch and I forget where I’ve been If this is where

the circle begins Let me believe it’s the first time again

Your voice arrives a second late A perfect glitch I recognize You

say that we can change our fate While repetition fills your eyes

The walls remember every word

Even the ones we never heard I should be running from the

sound

Instead, I let it pull me down

Have we stood here before?

Have I reached for your hand?

Did you promise me more

Where the silence began?

It feels like the first time again Like I don’t know how

this will end Like we haven’t already been Broken and buried beneath

our skin It feels like the first time again One touch and

I forget where I’ve been If this is where the circle begins

Let me believe it—

Again