today is a new day.

lick your lips.

today is a new day. today we will fall in love. we will play guitar until our fingers bleed.
 pray with our heads touching the ground, reciting the words until we feel them in our bones.

i will cook for you, with spices from places that we will someday visit.
you will wipe the lipstick from your lips, and i will wipe the tears from my face.
we will watch our friends get famous.
i will let my hair grow long, and you'll go barefoot from here on out.

we will build secret castles out of tapestries and ropes, hidden away in the corner of the room.
i will bake you cake that melts on your tongue, and you will press your love into the palm of my hand.

we will watch the days fade. magic may into june gloom, clouds and heat and our ribcages melting into one another.

today is a new day