I live to keep your heart
To press it close against your hopes and distant stars
I live to keep you breathing
To kiss the daylight to your cheeks as you breathe in
My love carries on over me over you
I live to know your mind
To piece the daybreak and the dusk to color your eyes
And I live to keep your heart
To make it bloom come undone
As doves like sparks drift soft from your eyes
Over me over you
I live I have defeated death and I hear every word you've ever said
In anger, in sorrow, in fear of the shadowed knife of tomorrow
O I live to love you