To Die To Sleep

Oh to love
Oh to love against your will
To feel forever in hands
That will surely become dust
Oh to cling like magnets to moments that time will erase
To fade into one another and forget you once existed alone
To be so present that the future disappears into the past
Where it all makes perfect sense and the dotted lines connect

Oh to be thankful for the pain
That lead you to these arms
Where time cannot enter
And suffering cannot penetrate
To sing with notes that no voice can conjure
How helpless we become in love
How perfect we feel when we let go
And let flesh become soul
To free ourselves
And be whole for just a moment

Embers burning endlessly
Romeo, Romeo
Wherefore are, wherefore are thou Romeo

Oh to forget that all things end
To burn on love like suns in the abyss
Every breath an eternity
Every kiss the first
Every day the last
Every touch a black hole
That not even time can escape
What is this magic we possess
What is this spell binding us together

Oh to be lost and devoured
Porcelain willing to shatter
And end up broken and unfulfilled
Fractured into chapters so complete
They can never be completed
Oh to chase heaven through hell until at last
You've forgotten where you are
Sailing and destined and rudderless
Like feathers in a hurricane

Go insane with me, love
Let us both go mad if it means just one more moment like this
Again and again
A broken record looping into infinity
Drown with me, love
Pull me under like a sinking ship that once knew its course
Devour me
Burn through me like a wildfire
And if all that I am is ashes in the end
Then be dust
That had reason to exist

Dust
That chased eternity
Into dust
That we became
Dust
That can forever say
We were love

To die, to sleep
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to
'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished
To die, to sleep
To sleep, perchance to dream
Ay, there's the rub!
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause
There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life
To die to sleep
To die to sleep