Seven Little Lifetimes

First time

You were late to class

I was early

Coffee stain on your sleeve

Pen in your hair like a crown

You laughed

Spilled your stories all over the table

Said

"I talk too much"

I said

"Not yet

Keep going"

If I get seven little lifetimes

I’m still wasting all of them on you

Same face in a thousand timelines

I’d still choose the long way back to you

If the sky resets and the years rewind

I’ll be lost

I’ll be wrong

I’ll be new

Seven little lifetimes

Still falling into you

Next time

You were crying in a stranger’s kitchen

Bare feet on a cold tile floor

Phone on the counter

Glowing

You said

"Everyone leaves when the room gets quiet"

I said

"Then I’ll learn to love

The sound of the quiet with you"

If I get seven little lifetimes

I’m still wasting all of them on you

Same face in a thousand timelines

I’d still choose the long way back to you

If the sky resets and the years rewind

I’ll be lost

I’ll be wrong

I’ll be new

Seven little lifetimes

Still falling into you

Third life

We’re older in a smaller city

Groceries in a paper bag

Keys in the wrong apartment door

You smile

Like you’ve almost heard this story

Like your hands remember mine

From someone else’s memory

Tell me

Do you ever get that

Echo in your chest at night?

Like a hallway

Full of strangers

But one shadow fits just right

If we get seven little lifetimes

I’m still wasting all of them on you

Same laugh in a hundred dark nights

Still the only sound that pulls me through

If the stars reset and the roads realign

I’ll be lost

I’ll be scared

I’ll be new

Seven little lifetimes

Still walking home to you

Maybe we were rain

Falling on the same sad rooftop

Different storms

Same street

Running down to meet

Maybe we were names

Crossed out on some old love letter

Wrong address

Right ink

Pulled apart by the crease

One life where we miss it (so close)

One life where we try (too late)

One where we’re just friends

Sharing secrets at the gate

One where we burn fast

Match to gasoline

One where we grow slow

Moss over concrete

If we get seven little lifetimes

I’m still wasting all of them on you

Same soul in a thousand glances

Still the stranger that I always knew

If the sky resets and the years rewind

I’ll be lost

I’ll be wrong

I’ll be new

Seven little lifetimes

Still reaching out for you

Last time

If it ever really has a last time

Find me in the quiet room

Breathing like I’ve been here before

I’ll say

"I don’t know why

But I remember"

You’ll say

"I was waiting too"

And we’ll start again from the door