Atlantis

Tell me why this has to end? 

We were fighting the fates for this one

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Every push against the waves 

When I told you I was falling apart

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You agreed

We were disintegrating 

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My moon and your sun the makings of hubris

And we didn’t do relationships and we wouldn’t do love

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We’re slipping sand off fingertips and I don’t know 

Whose are still holding on 

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If only I could lose my pride 

If only you could look past the guilt

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I call you back and you whisper–

Can we try again?

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This time is different I’m here with your sun

And you can keep my moon and our city 

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Is rebuilt 

Rising tides taller walls 

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Who’s inside and who is left out– 

Can we try again please?

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The first time you cried in my arms 

The first time we said I love you instead of goodbye

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I handed you back the guilt that made it better

You gave me pride’s protection– 

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Please can we try again? 

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Do you find it poetic 

How I learned to write through us 

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My muse 

My addiction

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I’m in love with the ways we storm and flood– 

Can we please try again? 

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This time. 

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This time the words are honey 

Down throats and when you’re sick it’s a relief 

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Letting this tide rise and fall letting the cycle run through me– 

Can you try again? 

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This time the letting go is the moon and the sun is showing 

And I am the us that never worked 

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Can we try?

This time the change is cut out of my body 

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I’m rewiring my brain to better let you go

Maybe I’m not built for love

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Remember the person in all their glory

Remember the face and the laughter and the smile

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And the falls and the lows and the ways the person I’d loved

Remained the same in every memory 

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This time isn’t ever going to be different you asked

Tell me why this had to end? 

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We were fighting the fates for this one, love

I thought it was romantic 

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Can we keep trying?

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I don’t want to drown for you

Please, let this go

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Please? 

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Let me go.