Sunlight In The Cold

By Jacob James Grigware

It was spring

The air was cold

My fingers burned

My lungs froze

You were sunlight

In the cold

You kissed my fingers

You let me drink from your warm lungs

You told me you loved me

But your light didn’t solely shine on me

There was a girl

And there was me

She was shy

Her eyes

Begging for you

strained to reach mine

I was shy

My eyes

Felt wrong on her

And were pried off of you

So you took off your clothes

You were vulnerable, we had the key

you held our hands

you said to love and to be free

And so we melted

We sailed the sea

The three of us

You and her and me

And so we lifted

Up off the ground

Sailing in the sky’s current

Looking down on our ol’ town

Then you left us, you sank in the deep

You tied rocks to your feet and jumped in the raging sea

We sailed the three-man ship

her and me

her and me

survived

when the world went to shit

When everyone had burned or gotten bit

It was me and her

Who fed your flame

And kept it 

Lit

It was spring again

The world was cold

Our fingers burned

Our lungs froze

You were sunlight

In the cold

You kissed our fingers

You let us drink from your warm lungs

By Jacob James Grigware