If Tomorrow Never Comes
If tomorrow never comes
Tonight will still have been
Your hand, still
Holding mine, between the sheets
Of your bed or
Of the pages of our story together,
You and me, you and me
If the impossible sun never rises
The way my heart screams it cannot
We will stay here, trapped
In this web of safety
Beneath the cover of night
Defying the necessity of explanation
If daylight never reaches its penetrating fingers
Over my arm, sprawled across you chest,
Will this moment, which we have created
Cease to be?
If we could stay here forever
And not go back
To a life of work, love, and death,
To a place where there are unspeakable lines
Which we can never admittedly cross
Could we just exist here, forever
Out of time?
I know that when the dawn breaks
It will be time
To pull the masks back down, hiding our faces
Our scars, our truth
From the world, from each other.
I know –
That in the daylight, this can never be
But what if all the pain and suffering
And all the injustice that we have caused
Or failed to prevent
And all the murder and the war,
The killing and the dying, and the loss of hope
What if all the sadness of our lives
Has created this darkness,
Has pulled over us this veil of never-ending night
Star-studded Night
In which we have found, in despair
This precious gift that allows us to be together
Hold me tightly, this night
In your war-worn, world-weary arms
Paladin. Protector.
And pray, because you believe
(Even if I don't).
Pray that tomorrow never comes