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if there's one thing i've learned squirming under your sea-blue gaze it's that "when" denounces "why," and "how" is no crown to seek out to proudly wave under storms born of self-abasement

it's just clocks facing themselves

when denounces why as i stand buried under four years of snow, knowing only i forged tears from circumstance and struck sand instead of the walls atop it

you say stop it

holding only betterments as evidence that salt can scrub from sediment what my existential sentiments neither can nor ever will

filled in moments, found choking in others, knowing the when of us as lovers might birth the why of my deserving it.

the how is mouse tracks, or river maps pretending you can cross the same heart twice, hoping to die each time, or at least try
to transcend the heart's mind

it's senseless

once you've said that and meant it, answer "when" with momentum

and i may still hurt from people who lurk behind pages or benches or even the mention of a past masked in "why?"
i still try to denounce it with each round shadow-boxing the talking points of chalk dusting the handholds between the ground and forgiveness

the hardest part is accepting your arms as harness

and as far as I'm willing to go, i know you're every bit as afraid and tempted to fall

but while there's snow below, there's all the more reason to jump
to love that uncertain sky

so just say when,
and we'll cross that sea of why

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from empiricist., released February 12, 2019

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