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  • Writer: Jamie Drake
    Jamie Drake
  • Oct 16, 2017

you were the Canada

the Canada flier

no one higher

no one kinder

the darkness fell all over you

cigarettes and voices flew

defend me now

defend me then

northern orphan

up in Heaven

the bathtub fell all over you

I could not defend you too

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  • Writer: Jamie Drake
    Jamie Drake
  • Oct 16, 2017

i want to breathe to you 1000 streams of light

so that your heart is satiated

with the purest love of a newborn child

when trust and respect are pieces of me

bequeathed to you without preoccupation of return

or the sad hope that you will love me too

i want to feed to you 1000 waves of sound

and songs from a soul uncovered by darkness

with a new face to finally confront the born world

new hands to strum for your rays of light

or honey, sugar, and nectarines to edify

the construction of us and the future chaotic humble

i want to defecate from you the 1000 years of doubt

the festering blackness left to you before birth

and the moves to and from without your soul

a home never found just searching for warmth

and the men and children and who knows why

the internal cyclone of your wounds circling and circling

i want to see for you 1000 fields

of tobacco, sugarcane, sunflowers, and passion fruit

diving in with my mind and photographing the sounds

of the wind drifting through the valley of your body

the eyes of a lifetime drenching the greenery

the plans of joy running on to the sun

i want to hear for you the wind of a 1000 birds in flight

and take flight with your svelt soul

sailing over the earth and urban soil

  • Writer: Jamie Drake
    Jamie Drake
  • Oct 16, 2017

i'm miles away and I miss you

i'm looking to escape with you

only with you

i'm miles away and keep flying

through the air and i'm dying

without you

i'm miles from your touch and eyes

i'm lost somewhere in the lonely skies

and if you were warm with me too

we could ascend to the moon

and look down

with big eyes

at the clowns

and their sighs

i'm miles away from your angel smiles

I wont see you again in an ancient mile

and if you were warm with me too

we would laugh all the way june

and wipe tears

or let them drop

for years

until they stop

(miles away from here)

i'm miles away from your beating heart

you knew it right from the start

and if you were warm with me too

our destiny would be in view

focus bright

wide lens

and the light

your heart sends

(miles away from here)

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