Topic: Poems for Zaz
I can't remember if it was snowing
or if the night was even cold
All I could see were your beautiful eyes
and that soldier sadness in your face
You looked straight at me
and I looked straight at you
like coming home for the very last time
There was nothing for us here we needed to find -
just each other
And it all went into that long sweet fall
in that half-light of love that should have always been
Sighs here in this shadow of heaven
filling up the last of the night
And then they lined up all around us
and just ran us straight into the ground
Angry for losing their senses
Hurt with that thing that they could not feel
And then the stars hung their heads
and the broken moon dropped tears
all over our holy ground
until nothing could hold back the flood
And it all went into that long sweet fall
and their half-opened eyes couldn't take the light
as they ducked into the shadows of heaven
just beyond our sorrow burning there so bright
And my Zaz and I went into that long sweet fall
Laying back into the arms of forever
Carried up over all the shadows of heaven
to rest where worlds spin so softly in unbroken skies
Now every step I take is just a long sweet fall
like the tears running down my cheeks
I know the midnight is lifting in heaven
as we rise to make a morning for our love again
I swear I heard your little feet run across the kitchen floor
but the dog still sits alone looking at the door
I swear I smelled you on the pillow, felt you move next to me
but it's just the curtains sailing up on a midnight breeze
tommy for Zaz always
Updated: Friday, 18 December 2009 11:23 AM EST
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