There in the Christmas lights
Under that cold night
He understood
How rare a thing
like Love was .
He understood,
How brief
Life truly was…
Maybe it was as fast as an autumn in Alabama
And maybe most people’s lives were like a leaf in the wind
There and then cast away somewhere
Who knows where?
Unnoticed
And
Yet most people
It seemed
Lived a quiet torture
A held breath
And they carried so much weight
Like someone
Who really wanted a cigarette after sex
And another who couldn’t even remember much less care
When the last time
They didn’t sleep alone was
People seemed to live
And
Vanish
And get replaced
By another body –
And he understood
How rare
It was –
To be happy
And to be healthy
And
In love
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