If I Could Fly

By: Jonathan Potter

If I could fly
My plane to you
I'd put the sky
Into my shoe
And make my way
Across the blue
In half a day
That's what I'd do
To spend the evening
Touching you
And then the morning
Through and through
And on and on
And deep into
Your dusk my dawn
Our one from two

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