Day becomes the evening

Sea becomes the sand

I become this letter in your hand

Sent without a message

Signed a different name

Everything recedes to where it came

I could hold my breath another day

I could hold the space to love you anyway

Not ever of you, no longer with you

Still

Wait another moment

Wait another year

Hide your tired mind from what you hear

You, the wisest teacher

You, the truest friend

Further from your god than from our end

I could hold my breath another day

I could hold the space to love you anyway

Fix your broken heart with balls of clay

Not ever of you, no longer with you

Still here, now

Yours until the closing day