Life on Hold

I do not like this silver plane
this shaky ground
Your strange new travelling companions
This jetway that absorbs our love
as you walk down
All this stillness, sad farewells
and standing 'round
It feels like life is put on hold when you're away
A strange suspended animation
I lose my place
I lose my easygoing smile
Endless days of wandering inattention
But we were meant to be together always
Within these arms I will enfold you
This brief eternity that we must work through
Until we stand soul to soul
and say goodbye to life on hold
I hold the things we do to
keep this dream alive
I hold our trust in one another
I hold the promise of a day when this is done
Finally take this magic so much further
To never waken in the dawn
with darkest fears
Erase uncertainty and creeping doubt
To not have every day together be so dear
Finally both be living in the here and now
But we were meant to be together always
Within this heart I will enfold you
This brief eternity that we must work through
Until we stand soul to soul
and say goodbye to life on hold
Each and every whisper on the phone
Every midnight look on the pixel screen
Every bond of trust we build and labor to sustain
Each emotion that we dare express
Each sweetly spoken caress
Each dream of standing soul to soul
And no more life on hold
But we were meant to be together always
Within my heart I will enfold you
This brief eternity that we must work through
Until we stand soul to soul
and say goodbye to life on hold