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Fourteen Days

Fourteen dawns I've watched the sun
Rise alone in our bed
Fourteen nights I've reached for warmth
Found only rumpled sheets instead

The coffee's bitter in my mouth
Your cup sits dry upon the shelf
I talk to shadows in this house
And answer questions to myself

Do you remember where we met?
That crowded room, that autumn night
I was someone else before you
Someone smaller, someone right

You looked at me — just looked at me
And something broke behind my ribs
Not broke to ruin, broke to open
Like a door that never had a lid

I didn't know what love could be
Until your hands rewrote my name
Every scar I carried quietly
You kissed them each and spoke them plain

You said: "You're not too much for me
You said: "I'm not afraid of your storm
And I — who thought myself unlovable
Found in your arms a home, a form

Two weeks. Just two weeks, they tell me
As if time obeys their clocks
But every hour without you near
Is stone upon stone upon rocks

I wear your shirt to sleep sometimes
The scent is fading — come back soon
I've memorized your voice mail greeting
Just to hear you in the room

I never cared for whispers, love
Never cared for sideways stares
Let the whole world see me trembling
Let them see how bold love dares

They can keep their careful secrets
Their half-lives lived in shadow's grace
I will stand in full daylight and say
She is my heart, she is my place

She — yes, she — the one who found me
She who kissed my fears to sleep
She whose laughter feeds my mornings
She whose promises I keep

Come home to me, my beautiful girl
Come home and end this longest night
I don't care who knows I'm trembling
I don't care who sees the light

Fourteen days. And forever to go
Come home
Come home