Same Shade of Skins

The other day I noticed you and I have the same skin

An olive brown.
Tanned by days in the sun

but yellowing in the fall cool cloudy.

I took it for a sign.

 A sign that you and I were one.

Two pieces lost trying to find each other.

The only problem is you're flipped upside down and backwards

And I’m just ramming myself into all the wrong edges.

 But once you're the right way

We’ll slip together like we'd always been meant to be.

That thought got me through the detox of your absence.

 But I figured it out.

You and I share a skin because we're one.

One and the same.

We are here to help each other figure out our lives.

 I've got the life you need

And you have the life I want.

We are not meant.

We are not soul mates

We are not future lovers

 We are siblings.

Pulled apart to lift each other up.

Sorry I can’t seem to keep things straight.

But I’ve got the deep down blues.

The great wide hollows.

And so I’m clinging onto anything

That shines any kind of light.

And baby,

You’re the brightest light I’ve seen.