The cancer filled my lungs… Like a garden of twining weeds But I still had the beat of my wings And sang in chorus to the wheeze! Yes, cancer took over my body,
Where once we were like Siamese twins And I really did love you Where once our bodies dissolved Into one another On a salt bed crystallized Now I find the first cracks
So you want to kiss the sun and stars And break a thousand lovers’ hearts. Shuffle them as if they were a deck of cards… And you were their only queen of hearts.
The night precipitates I’ll sleep I’ll die by the light of the moon And I’ll dream forever wakeful Pupate in a butterfly’s cocoon. The light precipitates I’ll wake