Everything I Learned, I Learned From You

From you,
I learned to sing.

We would harmonize in those fields
Of green vines and red fruit
Where we would belt out those notes
To our new favorite songs,
The melancholy melodies
That took on new meaning.
Like words to a poem,
They twisted on our tongues,
Slipped past our lips,
Intertwining in air
As we could not care
Who else who could hear
Or who else stood quite near.

Time stood still
in those fields of forever
Where fireflies sang
In morse code to their lovers.
The stars twinkled bright
Against the black of the night
And ‘twixt our two fingers
We’d whistle a tune
And call out to Babe
The horse ‘neath the moon.

Your euphoric laugh
Would ring in the air,
The vibrant vibrato
So rich and so fair.
The crickets joined it,
Conductors of the show
To an orchestral concord
That continued to grow.
It rang loud and clear
So the gods could hear
And waltz in their corridors
Of marble and white
As our shadows pirouetted
across the night.

I believed you were crazy,
And you believed that you loved me.

From you
I learned to live

Wildly,
Stupidly,
Fully.
We’d climb those trees
Then bandage our cuts;
We’d wrestle at night
Then sleep until dusk.
We’d run through the fields
That read “do not enter;”
We went on long walks
To make it all better.
We told the meaning of life
Then joked about death;
We learned to fall down
And breathe with no breath.
We’d cry like the rain
Poured in bad weather,
But it never mattered
‘Cause we were together.
But all things must come to an end
It would seem
Because you left me
Never to be seen again

You believe I am crazy,
And I believe that I love you.