From every room hearts spoke through walls too thin to hold
 The weight of what they heard
 So fires crept through spaces long left soft and blurred

 Notes slipped under the doors
 Frozen to the floor, we believed everything
 Leaves blown beneath the eaves
 Whirring like a nest of wound-up starlings

 We were young
 We didn't heed those things
 If birds were singing
 We were loved

 We were young
 Like the universe
 Like our mothers were
 Like these words