Passage Poem by Edith Niemeyer

[Verse 1]
I found your name in orbit dust
Written on the edge of dusk
Your hand was warm in my glove
Like a map I could not trust

We kissed past the silent flare
Past the bones of broken air
Your eyes moved slow as a tide
And I held on for the ride

[Pre-Chorus]
If the sky can bend, let it bend
If the hour breaks, let it end
I'm still here, I'm still yours
Even when the dark gets bored

[Chorus]
Passage of time, stay close
Passage of time, don't go
I love you through the drift
I love you through the cold
Passage of time, stay close
Passage of time, don't go
Hold me in your hands
Till the last star folds

[Verse 2]
Now the moon has changed its face
But it wears your aftertaste
I watch the comets bruise and burn
Every spark is a return

Your laugh is a frozen wave
Cutting through the years I gave
I was younger in your light
Now I'm learning how to age

[Pre-Chorus]
If the sky can bend, let it bend
If the hour breaks, let it end
I'm still here, I'm still yours
Even when the dark gets bored

[Chorus]
Passage of time, stay close
Passage of time, don't go
I love you through the drift
I love you through the cold
Passage of time, stay close
Passage of time, don't go
Hold me in your hands
Till the last star folds

[Bridge]
I saw my old self float by
Like a shell with empty eyes
But your voice pulled me back in
Like a tide against the skin

So take the years, take the night
Take the ache and make it light
If we vanish, let it be
Side by side in gravity

[Final Chorus]
Passage of time, stay close
Passage of time, don't go
I love you through the drift
I love you through the cold
Passage of time, stay close
Passage of time, don't go
Hold me in your hands
Till the last star folds