there's a pebble in the woods
there's a pebble in the woods and another
follows
shoes on our feet not enough to keep the world's chill from seeping through us, bitter and unforgiving but
free
for two birds to sway on a wire in the night's gale
to look upon the scorched earth that they
begged the heavens
not to burn
i say I love you and you don't believe me
and that's alright, because years from now it won't matter
when every pebble and each blade of burnt grass
are just ashes you don't care to
dust off
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