We lock the gaze tightly upon each other   No others come near, no others come between   As you remain beside me, muted and studying      In beauty and radiant heat   I will write the words I want to hear you say   On a page torn from my diary   I'll hand you the sacred text   And wait for you to place it   Across the hole in my heart      Smoothing the edges from the center   Affixing it in place with sugar, water and saliva   I want you to read these words to me every day      And this is where the thought resides   Stuck upon my heart on the outside   I am speechless in your beauty   You are flawless in my eyes   As your eyes show my reflection      I try to ignore the decay   Listen harder to the tone   The pitch of your broad chest   As it exhales into mine      Old highs new lows   Ain't that how life goes?