I used to stand taller than your eyes,
higher than the ground,
before I lost to the lights
And the stares that hurt my skin so
like poisoned arrows
like
the likes of
needles
and blood and
tears

Present is a lifetime after yesterday
A flawed time before tomorrow
And a mere fragile second before I die
Before I truly
die

You said rewriting this story was
to defy gravity
I told you yes,
gravity could be defied

That was how hard I had fallen
And just how high you had been

I took three steps closer
to the shore
An inch up from the water
to you
Sweet distance
Sweet parting
And a bitter taste of heartbreak
left in my mouth
There is no such thing as beautiful goodbye

We couldn't defy gravity
enough to fly away
together

So the water swallows me down
And you now stand taller
than the whole of me