The earth has forgiven you (song)

the earth has forgiven you

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i wish i could say there was

a gap where you used to be

walking softly, catching moths to

release them into the night

laughing upside down to hide your  teeth, you were always
but through the earth you still march

unheard you wake me in the night

like the creak of a familiar landing

dreaming that I saw your face

on a stranger the other day

you are the cracks that take

the water to its home 

through the earth you still

march, like rain

desert

shade-maker

stream

a severed arm of me

you are in the earth
and through the earth, oh

the earth has 

forgiven you

but I’ve not

forgiven you

the earth has

forgiven you

but I’m still alone

All those years we could have had you

lie like a knife on the

bottom of a drawer

a wretched truth of used to be

No ghosts or flickers of the light, not here

Just the dust of three lives stopped dead

in their tracks

Imagining

that we’d just been left behind

that you were on the earth

not in the earth oh

the earth had been given you

but we had not given you

the earth has been given you

but we’re still alone

where are you now

do you see the things that make us real G

do you see the pain do you

feel it too

I’ve buried you so long, I can’t
recall just what it felt like to

say your name

Where are you now

Do you have the strength to make it home

If I meet you halfway

Will you come

I don’t always miss you,

but I miss you in the moments

When I come undone

Every year or two I add a piece to a puzzle
I’m just trying to define a life I’ll never understand
I keep waiting for the tide to bring you back
Your life on the tip of my tongue so say this:

Please, stop waiting for me,
take your severed heart and just be;
I am in the earth, and through the earth,
the earth has forgiven me,
but you’ve not forgiven me
The earth has been given me, so let me go home.