we began hand in hand nothing but collard greens and candied yams to understand imagine magic from aladdin s lamp a genie s wish upon a star in a fantasy land until the pattern got more scrambled than an anagram and we were arm in arm tangled up like a ball of yarn disregarding emotional scarring and bodily harm that sense of breathing underwater was part of the charm before long we bought the farm and a pottery barn and mouth to mouth can t breathe life when you re drowning out shouting with a louder shout down for the count without a doubt resentment can make a ghost town of a crowded house and sparks don t fly when the power s out but when we were toe to toe it was like a fuse in the home exploded blown at a moment s notice emotional roller coasters we re both invoking the father son and the holy ghost so ferocious with the i told you sos cause we never saw eye to eye to the point that i could be by your side and feel divided by an iron tide a mile wide if we d kept our eyes on the prize we might have survived but time flies we said our final goodbyes standing face to face locked in a stalemate on the edge of a razor blade feeling the foundation shake with every crazy mistake you can make in a day we see all our unbreakable waves of paper mache til we re back to back all of the bags are packed every memory is neatly stacked and plastic wrapped there s no magic no more passion or app for that as happenstance would have it that s just that this is my real life withering heights and the glimmer is getting dimmer in the shimmering lights it dwindles until what i m living isn t a life like an innocent in prisoner stripes  i love you let s start there strip the art bare that s my heart there let me in part share how we got here far from the spark flare please be all ears earth my place of birth born to be the lone roamer of the universe and i was just a human flirt drew from dirt delivered from the womb to nurse dodging cupid s curse until i saw you in that tunic skirt venus de milo my breathtaking eyeful i began to cat and mouse chase felix fievel the pursuit pays off i make my pitch clean and steady not ready to make to bite the dust so please be my queen freddie mercury the years then passed by hurriedly blissful dates wedding first home child and nursery our rocket love became tertiary urgently cause you were rushed to the hospital sheer heart attack surgery jupiter what am i to do if you ain t here our daughter needs her mother here to root for her the nuclear family can t see you go the route of pluto i want to love you just the way you are you know bruno mars pseudo stars can t replace your presence my aurora borealis is bedridden under incandescent lights ventilators and ekg machines visiting hours don t apply to those of us with wedding rings saturn uranus neptune galaxy emory crawford long angioplasty the lump in my throat that clump in your artery the prospect of going on without you is hard for me and this is my real life withering heights and i m praying to christ to the tune of give me the night so you might greet the sun tomorrow when the curtain s drawn cause morning without you is a dwindled dawn so please hold on and stay strong just hold on