Still Love You Standing

I still love you standing
Not falling on my knees
With my heart back close to me
Your name still

Your name still walks through my room sometimes
Soft as rain on the washing line
Through the missed
Through the missed calls and the borrowed years
Through the quiet wars and the kitchen tears
I watched you leave and watched you return
Some flames refuse to unlearn

And choose me to I can bless what we had and still
Still love you, still love you standing

Not falling on my knees
With my heart back close to me

If you come with peace
I will hear you you If you come with games I will leave I will leave I will leave

Years may bend but I won't break
Standing like a baobab tree

I gave you patience when the nights went long
Now I give myself a morning clean
A spoon of mercy and a better dream
Sunday shirt
Pressed the creases out the hurt

They ask me

Why I kept the same brass key I did keep it but I changed the lock and spring
This key opens my front door now
Not ours
You can still knock
That's a different

I still love you standing
Not falling on my knees
I still love you standing
At my door and it is mine

Standing — oh
I am still me
Standing — oh
I am still me
Standing — oh
I am still me
Standing... still me