(Before anyone reads this I want to clear something up.
This is not about my boyfriend [ahem...ex-boyfriend] This
Is about a friend who died a few years ago in Iraq, not a
Former lover. Enjoy, I hope hearts break and conformists
Are pissed off.)









I promise I won't break
Just...touch me.
I feel no pain
Just...your essence.
My lips are telling me to throw everything away
For a glimpse of your cold flesh.
My fingers...miss you.













(Shiver)















Let all restraints be the reasons you let everything go.
Defy your strings
They don't want you to succeed.
Touch me
And I'll make you smile.















(Shiver)















Hold me
And I'll make you sing.
Sing to me
And I'll bow down gracefully.

A dance with you.
And the magnolias will play
The violin strings of a wheeping willow
A crying song
That will singal the start of the piano of stars:
The firefly song of goodbye.





















(Shiver)


















Shoeless feet
Move in sinc
Atop freezing grass
A mound of earth...
On holy land.









On the brink of winter more hearts break.










You:
A gladiator
A prince
A piece of art
A chivalrous knight
A lone heart
A fallen tear
A broken mirror
A lost ray of sunshine

Your last moonbeam has faded
And upon it...I never got to see you smile.
Only break at the bad cards in your hand.

I promise I won't break
Just...touch me.
I feel no pain
Just...your essence.
My lips are telling me to throw everything away
For a glimpse of your cold flesh.
My fingers...miss you.















(Shiver)














[Turn off the beautiful mourning beam
Turn on the hate
And place the blame]













(Twitch)

Wrap the American flag
Around your annoying
Wanna-be defiant
Trying to be different
Throwing the finger at conformity
Conformists.

You live here.
You breathe here.
You work here.
You smile here.
All on YOUR OWN terms...
Because of lost warriors
Who stood up
Knocked down threatening souls
And fell themselves.

My best friend
My confidant
The tears in my eyes
All fallen.

Next time you want to defy MY flag
I'll wrap it around my finger
So you can focus your beady little eyes
And glare at the red white and blue
Telling you to FUCK OFF.
 
Read this symphony of a lost friend
And remember how wrong you are.

(Twitch)

















[The mourning beam returns, flooding the hate eulogy]

















(Shiver)




















Dance with me, my ghostly friend
Until the frostbite breaks the willow's limbs
And the magnolia withers.
Until the stars retire from their keys
And all I can hear
Is the lament of a firefly's goodbye.
























You still stand tall
Beneath the flag.

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