My dear the comet missed the berth Still it wrote your name in ash I saw our vows in Mercury's glass Then vanished like a silk held gasp You were my north in a burned out chart I was the tide in a cracked red bowl Now all the heavens keep their parts And leave our center cold Let the distance speak Let it keep its teeth The moon wore lace like grief And cut the night in three Perihelion come back to me Perihelion come back to me I love you in the dark Like a star that will not mend Perihelion break the sea Perihelion break the sea Your name in my ruined mouth Keeps circling without end I watched your shadow cross the mast Of some impossible iron ship The deck was veiled in lunar dust The hours fell split lipped My heart a telescope of salt kept finding what was gone Every golden rule of youth Went dim then turned to dawn The afterglow is thin The wound looks like a hymn We fit the void too well Then slipped from limb to limb Perihelion come back to me Perihelion come back to me I love you in the dark Like a star that will not mend Perihelion break the sea Perihelion break the sea Your name in my ruined mouth Keeps circling without end Majestic ruin in thirds A crown of frost a bent up verse The planets bow then stall And leave our silence first I cannot unmake The map you made in me So let the blackened miles Remain my liturgy Perihelion come back to me Perihelion come back to me I love you in the dark Like a star that will not mend Perihelion break the sea Perihelion break the sea Your name in my ruined mouth Keeps circling without end O even voids keep score O even voids adore I love you I love you And nothing else exists — © Cannonfall (ASCAP) & Quiet Noise (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved.
