if you loved me
you say it every day
if you loved me
you'd save me
every time i fell and
every time i stalled and stuttered
with hours gone by and
times gone by
if you loved me
you listen to this song
and tell me what you'd
love to see changed, if
nothing at all
sometimes i can
think of passing this on and
perhaps writhe with
compromise
but that would be
no fun at all
i want to hear your voice again
in honest sense, a present tense
syllables and sentences built
just for me
language is such a strong
method of change and feeling
we program one another and
build upon our pasts
to build upon a future
that supposedly will last
and i'm not sure
anything will be forever
but the way you dot your i's and
crost your we's i could
listen 'till i die
if only for a while
-j.m.
(written to go alongside andrew bird's "tenuousness")