Two Moths

Fake rock to hide the key
Feign subtle secrecy
We couldn't help wishing to be
In places we shouldn't be
You set with me

Two leaves from the same tree
Hundred eighty degrees
Growing apart from each other

Fake smile to cover my teeth
Bed sheets to hide from me
An ill we could not wish away
The last message left on the tape
I saved it always

Two moths circling the flame
Two moths patterned the same
Stayed where the other could see
Stayed where the other could reach me

One moth entered the flame
Returned to dust again
Cover your wings with me
And the flicker of light was all that made
Your memory

Don't think of us below
Don't think of carried stone
Don't think of what you left
Don't think of what was unsaid
Don't think of how hard you tried
Only to let it out

Don't think how things would have changed if you did
Don't think of everything you said you'd save
Don't think of how you said you'd never feel
I felt it always

Fake props to sell the scene
Farewell synecdoche
It wouldn't, what you wished you'd say
Have mattered anyway