Caricamento in corso...

The ghosts under our skin

You loved me when we were stars in the sky,
you floated so far away from me, but even as humans one million years later,
I felt you in my chest.
You loved me when you were an ocean, and I was a bird.
I’d fly so low,
just so I could touch your waves
to my wings.  
Now we are human beings, and I don’t remember your name anymore.
I don’t even know
where you are,
or who you are.
All I know is when I look at the ocean, fire blooms inside my ribcage, and your presence is written all over my bones,
my skin burning;
where you left your fingerprints.
And so today I build worlds inside my head, of what we used to live like, when we were oceans, when we were stars;
 
when you loved me.
 
There are ghosts inside my lungs,
there are moons inside my throat I’ve swallowed;
Ghosts of people I’ve been,
moons I used to live under. I’m an old world living in a new one,
I don’t know where you are, my ocean;
but I hope you’re here with me somewhere.
I hope you’re a human, with the same stars in his chest,
and the same ghosts under his skin;
 
I hope I’m a ghost under your skin.

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