Ocean Vuong - Into the Breach lyrics

The only motive that there ever was was to...keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant just keeping a part of them. Jeffrey Dahmer I pull into the field & cut the engine. It's simple: I just don't know how to love a man gently. Tenderness a thing to be beaten into. Fireflies strung through sapphired air. You're so quiet you're almost tomorrow. The body was made soft to keep us from loneliness. You said that as if the car were filling with river water. Don't worry. There's no water. Only your eyes closing. My tongue in the crux of your chest. Little black hairs like the legs of vanished insects. I never wanted the flesh. How it never fails to fail so accurately. But what if I broke through the skin's thin page anyway & found the heart not the size of a fist but your mouth opening to the width of Jerusalem. What then? To love another man--is to leave no one behind to forgive me. I want to leave no one behind. To keep & be kept. The way a field turns its secrets into peonies. The way light keeps its shadow by swallowing it.