If I could,

If I could, I’d tell you that it’ll all be okay,

And that someday we won’t have to wear masks night and day.

And I have wished on every candle and every flame and every grave

To bring your mind back from where it fell away.

Someone should have warned us before the world went up and crashed,

And then we wouldn’t be here, desolate and sorry and sad.

We would have gone to the Places-To-See

Just us against the world, you and me.

I would have been there with you to build and imagine

This better world with patience and passion.

But these times I remember 

Are now the ones you surrender.

Do you know that my arms ache for your phantom weight?

Because we’re fools, even as the sickness takes and takes.

If I could, I would reach over and draw you in,

And we’d fall together like the world’s all right again.