how do you live?

how do you live

how do you live my lifelong love?

so happily, so intently

without a tint of old sorrows

without a tint of old sorrows shading your eyes

how is it that the world orbits around you

and angels follow you on all sides?

why is it that my world

why is it that my world is full of doom lurking in every corner

waiting for my soul to die?

why do I cycle through turmoil

with each fall taking more to revive?

yet you have never met

the deepest of the darkest shadows

no—

no— you were born to be alive