［Ben Foster］
I knew it then
In that room where we found for the first time our eyes
And everything
Even the din and smoke of the city around us disappeared
Leaving us alone
As if we stood the last two in the world left capable of love
Or as if two mirrors face-to-face with no end
To the light our eyes could bend into infinity
I knew since I knew you
But we couldn't
［Robin Wright］
I caught the sunlight pining through the shears
Traveling millions of dark miles
Simply to graze your skin
As I did that first dawn I studied you sleeping beside me
Yes, I counted your eyelashes
Read your dreams like butterflies flitting underneath your eyelids
Ready to flutter into the room
Yes, I praised you
Like a majestic creature my god forgot to create
Till that morning of you suddenly tamed in my arms
First for me to see, name you mine
Yes to the rise and fall of your body breathing
Your every exhale a breath I took in as my own
Wanting to keep even the air between us as one
Yes to all of you
Yes I knew, but still we couldn't
［Ben Foster］
I taught you how to dance Salsa
By looking into my Caribbean eyes
You learned to speak in my tongue
While teaching me how to catch a snowflake in my palms
And love the grey clouds of your grey hometown
Our years began collecting in glossy photos
Time-lining our lives across shelves and walls glancing back at us
Us embracing in some sunset
More captivated by each other than the sky brushed plum and rose
Us claiming some mountain
That didn't matter as much our climbing it together
Us leaning against columns of ruins
As ancient as our love was new
Or leaning into our dream at a table
Flickering candlelight in our full-mooned eyes
I knew me as much as us
And yet we couldn't
［Robin Wright］
Though I forgave your blue eyes turning green each time you lied
But kept believing you
Though we learned to say good morning
After long nights of silence in the same bed
Though every door slam taught me to hold on by letting us go
And saying you're right became as true as saying I'm right
Till there was nothing a long walk couldn't resolve
Holding hands and hope under the street lights
Lustering like a string of pearls guiding us home
［Ben Foster］
Or a stroll along the beach with our dog
The sea washed out by our smiles
Our laughter roaring louder than the waves
Though we understood our love was the same as our parents
Though we dared to tell them so, and they understood
Though we knew, we couldn't
No one could
When the fiery kick lines and fires were set for us
By our founding mother-fathers at Stonewall
We first spoke defiance
When we paraded glitter, leather, and rainbows made human
Our word became pride down every city street
Saying: Just let us be
But that wasn't enough
Parades became rallies-bold words on signs and mouths
Until a man claimed freedom as another word for marriage
And he said: Let us in
We said: love is love
［Robin Wright］
Proclaimed it into all eyes that would listen
At every door that would open
Until noes and maybes turned into yeses
Town by town
City by city
State by state
Understanding us and the woman who dared say enough
［Ben Foster］
Until the gavel struck into law what we always knew
Love is the right to say: I do
-I do (man)
-I do (man)
-I do (woman)
-I do (woman)
-I do (man)
-I do (man)
-I do (woman)
-I do (woman)
-I do (man)
-I do (man)
-I do (woman)
-I do (woman)
(man):
And I do want us to see every tulip we've planted come up spring after spring
A hundred more years of dinners cooked over a shared glass of wine
And a thousand more movies in bed
(woman):
I do until our eyes become voices speaking without speaking
Until like a cloud meshed into a cloud
(woman & man):
There's no more you, me
Our names useless
I do want you
To be the last face I see
Your breath my last breath
I do, I do and will
And will for those who still can't vow it yet
But know love's exact reason
As much as they know how a sail keeps the wind without breaking
Or how roots dig a way into the earth
Or how the stars open their eyes to the night
Or how a wine becomes one with the wall it loves
Or how, when I hold you...
You are rain in my hands
