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Tower Moment

Belly Lux

a little aftercare

a little Sugar For The Pill

playing low in the background

Carharrt and red lace in puddles

but there is no sun left for me

and no more sunday kind of love

Tobacco Vanille and one meal a day

it’s the year of the skin, the year of rejection

our world is locked up and my lips are zipped

because it’s bad luck when more people know

so i stitch my guts back inside

and i keep it all within me

monogamy is out of season

yet i’m loyal to the fantasy alone

i’m drawn out by the divine timing

i’m seeing numbers, patterns, and signs

and in a collision of planets, in saturns return

the universe pulls us back together in one last effort

i see you, and in my nature, i smile,

my heart reaching out more than ever

i see you come, i see you go, and i forgive the fluidity

it’s a tower moment for me, for us

realising the only control i have is over myself

it all boils down to just one thing, it’s my one life

what will i do with it? and what is it that i want?

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