(Listen to the entire song. It's worth it.)

''...So send me a sign through earthquakes and lightning...''

Send me a sign to denote that it's not just me.

That it's not just me that sees this rift valley widening, becoming engorged with our unspoken words and misplaced touches. Kisses unfelt on dry lips. Utterances ignored and gazes withdrawn.

Tell me you feel this too.

This fragmentation cannot only be my  reality.

Don't tell me you haven't noticed.

Don't tell me that you don't care.

Don't tell me that you don't know.

Don't tell me that you thought everything was idyllic between us.

Don't tell me we have faded to ashes.

Don't tell me that you're not prepared to breathe fire back into our collapsed lungs.

Don't tell me you've laid us to rest in our sunken grave
for I am claustrophobic
and
deathly afraid
of being buried
alive.

Don't tell me that you loved me only for my bright fire and not my glowing, dying embers.

Don't tell me, love, that you have given up on this.
I have already given up on myself

don't
make
me
give
up
on
us.