Some Other Life

with your sick dog and your slender hands

in your car on the way up the volcano

to your small home inland of the island

and your velvet whisper piano piano

it was sudden of course it was everything they say

you told me we unplug and that’s it

there’s no proof of after this doomsday

we go nowhere past our last exit

but my heart has been locked in your truck

ever since I said poetry is proof

I don’t know if you can love a girl windstruck

but I’m praying out your sunroof

to wake as something new no strife

I wish until my lips are blue

that in some other way in some other life

I will get to love you