Split Glass

The 46th
Your face froze
My hand slipped
Split glass

We were fighting through a four-inch frame
You blamed the signal, I blamed your name
Then the phone hit hard on the kitchen tile
One green chip flew half an aisle
When I picked it up, one bright black line
Ran from your left eye straight through mine
Two halves glowing, neither intact
Funny what looks honest after impact
I kept turning it sideways
Trying to make our faces meet
The picture wouldn't lie for me

Split glass
Two faces in blue light
One looked away
One held me tight
The crack didn't break, what was incomplete?
Split glass
Showed what you hid from me

Bite, bite, bite, bite down the middle
Split glass
Nothing left to edit

Across the split screen, our roadside stay
There we were, laughing by the pool that day
Your hand waved bright on the unbroken side
Mine disappeared in the great black divide
I taped the corner so it couldn't bleed
Watched old hearts stutter at half speed
Every happy thumbnail, we're the same scene
We got good at cropping out what we mean

Split glass
Two faces in blue light
One looked away
One held me tight
Cracked, didn't break, what was incomplete?
Split glass
I showed what you hid from me

The truth is I knew before the fall
I turned sideways down the hall
Found the angle where your eyes met mine
Kept the empty half outside the line

I watched the phone glow between your face and mine
I watched the phone glow between your face and mine

Two faces in blue light
One looked away
One held me tight
Cracked, didn't break, what was incomplete?
Split glass
Showed what you hid from me

I set your half face down
Kept mine in the light
Split glass