Not With All the Hope in the World

The Earth was warm from the sun
You weren’t ivory like the movies
The dirt stained you, dissolved you, eroded you, revealed you
You couldn’t escape that. Not with your faith
Not with all the hope in the world
So I kissed you on the teeth and laid there with you in the sun
And you answered more questions there than you ever did breathing
The dirt eroded you. Dissolved you. Destroyed you