You were the brave boy
Who took all the chances
I was the girl who caught your eye
I remember days
Far from our families
Blazing back trails, avoiding everyone
We would skip stones toward the sky 

And in that place
We would fall into each other
And that refuge kept us safe from the crowd
In the sanctuary of first love
We’d watch the river run
In the gravitational pull of what we’d begun

You were the young man
Stepping on a plane to journey far away
I stayed to live in poetry
“Golden apples of the sun”
The silver of moonlight
The joy of hello, the sorrow of goodbye
I was the girl who set you free

But remember how we’d fall into each other?
And that refuge kept us safe from the crowd
In the sanctuary of first love
We’d watch the river run
In the gravitational pull toward what we’d become

(bridge) Futures divide
              Draw us apart
              Orbits encircle different stars
              You heard your call
               I answer mine
               Separate we’re swept into the swell
               Of what rises toward us

In that place where we fall into each other
And that refuge keeps us safe from the crowd
In the sanctuary of first love
We watch the river run
Though the gravitational pull will end what’s begun
In the gravitational pull toward what we become