Love in the Twilight

[Verse]
The dusk settles in the second window of the coffee shop
The sugar you stirred sinks into a whirlpool of memories
I count the raindrops meandering on the glass
Like the warmth of the scarf not sent out that year

[Verse 2]
The last bus sways through the December fog
Your silhouette forms nebula shapes on the window
I pick up your lost poetry collection, page 137
Pressed maple leaves between faded lines

[Chorus]
We are stars dusting in reverse rotation
Meeting to brighten the melancholy of Orion
The universe expands with unspoken confessions
Letting them collapse into the cracks, escaping as stardust

[Verse 3]
The flight number in the airport terminal screen cycles
Your suitcase plastered with latitudes I never reached
The aurora hangs emerald curtains outside the porthole
And I remain the stargazer, counting the tremors light-years away

[Bridge]
The boundary of the polar day melts into midnight
We each hold snow from different seasons
As the star trails complete their final exposure in the frame
We realize all focus is tender illusions

[Outro]
I wipe ancient ice cores at the glacier museum
Crystals holding Jurassic moonlight
The forget-me-not you planted in the bottom of the coffee cup sprouts
And spring stays forever on the other side of the International Date Line