Lyric

I caught your shape

In sodium flicker

Half a second

Then the city took it

Some things fade

Without a sound

Some things stain

Whatever follows

I chose velocity

Over closeness

And called that choice

Something adult

I thought the years

Would drain the voltage

I thought repetition

Would wear it out

But it comes through

Like live current

Through the ribs

Through the cables

Every mile

I tried to outrun it

Made the phosphor

Burn more stable

Neither shelter

Nor warning

Just a charge

I can’t disable

There were mornings

I moved on timing

Hands full

Mouth shut

Eyes automatic

There were hallways

I stopped belonging to

While one old circuit

Kept rerouting through me

I told myself

That passing seasons

Would file the edges

From the memory

But some traces

Don’t lose their color

They just wait

For the body to read them

I feel it flash

Beneath the surface

I feel it turn

Before thought catches it

Now it comes through

Faster, brighter

Through the chest

Through the wiring

Every road

I thought would end it

Throws the wanting

Higher, higher

Neither refuge

Nor answer

Just a force

Without retiring

Sleep did nothing to it

Noise ran beside it

If I had turned

One block earlier

If I had spoken

Before the door slid shut

Would we have scattered

Or caught ignition

I never reach

The floor of that question

But the bloodstream

Reads the pattern

Before the language

Can interrupt it

It comes through

Like live current

Through the ribs

Through the cables

Every mile

I tried to outrun it

Made the afterglow

More unstable

Neither harbor

Nor warning

Just this rush

I’m wired for

Beautiful

And unfinished

More than distance

Ever asked for