if I could see you
just one more time
I would ask the world
to forget how to turn
I would stand before you
and memorize everything
the way your eyes find mine
the shape of your smile
the beautiful cruelty
of loving someone
that can not stay
and if that moment
were all this life
would ever give me
I would carry it
into every lonely tomorrow
I would make a home
inside the memory of you
and spend the rest of my days
living among its ruins
because there are some souls
we meet only once
yet spend an entire lifetime
trying to find again
and I think
I could bear the loneliness
of a thousand lifetimes
if somewhere buried beneath
all that sorrow I could say
I saw you one more time
and it was enough
to break my heart
for the rest of forever