Love in the Twilight
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