“I’m never gonna wait
that extra twenty minutes to text you back,
and I’m never gonna play hard to get
when I know your life
has been hard enough already.
When we all know everyone’s Life has been hard enough already
it’s hard to Watch the game we make of love,
like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars,
saying checkmate
whenever they get out without a broken heart.

 

Just to be clear
I don’t want to get out without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this Life so shattered
there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens
for all of my flying parts.”