The Humming from Animal Poem by Anna Tivel

you were trying to tell me something, i could not relate
language is a lover's problem, listening is pain
everything is open baby, everything is safe
someday when we're older i'll remember

summer on the roof, the apples falling from the tree
reaching for each other in confused eternity
reverence and wonder, emptiness and need
someday when we're older i'll do better

at watching you becoming everything you will become
i just want to live inside the realness of it all
hold you til you know you are the reason i know love
someday when we're older i will tell you

everything i learned about the rain from watching you
every way i thought i couldn't change until you moved every hour i spent just trying to kiss some kind of truth someday when we're older i will linger

over all the moments of an ordinary life
orange moon so low we had to stop and rub our eyes
i was trying to tell you but i couldn't find the words
someday when we're older sitting quiet

everything will spread out like a history of love
cinema unfolding in the wake of us
what if that bright humming is all there ever was
baby tell me something i can hear it

• Folk
• indie
• indie folk
• indie folk acoustic
• Portland