Just before First Year: I can see you; can you feel me?
Feel my eyes learning you,
every bit that is so new.
You're perfect, but
something is troubling you; I can tell.
But how can I fix it?
Help your wide eyes; lost and confused.
How can I learn who you truly are,
when all you do is push me away?
How can I fix you?
Seemingly a whole lifetime later: I can hear you; can you feel me?
It's as though distance means nothing,
your battered breaths are ripping through me.
I can hear you snap as you break and fall,
something is past redoing; I can tell.
But how can I fix it?
Help your broken eyes, your labored breaths.
A student is gone, lost in a maze,
and no one sees that we're losing you too.
How can I fix you?
Zoom forward a year: I can taste you, can you feel me?
Your salty wet tears seem to puddle on my tongue,
as though they might be mine instead,
as though I too had a godfather dead
It's like I'm next to you; I can tell.
But how can I fix it?
Help your tortured soul, your tangled mind.
All I have to do is leave my bedroom window,
and come down to you, beside the black lake.
How can I fix you?
In the middle of war: I can smell you; can you feel me?
I'm clinging onto you for my life,
You sweet smell reminding me; you came back for me
And although I'm scared, your scared too; I can tell.
But how can fix it?
Help relax your muscles, your tense shoulders.
It'd be too easy to get lost in you.
Shouldn't you be feeling that way too?
How can I fix you?
I can feel you, can you feel me?
Tonight we're together, our first chance at love.
All the sudden, after all my waiting,
your arms are around me, your breath at my neck
and I know this is right, this is natural; I can tell.
But how do I fix it?
Help you feel more welcome, feel loved?
I can make this feel better,
Give us the one thing we never knew we lost
And I didn't know before, how to fix you
But slowly I kiss you, and I'm beginning to learn.