We Were Never Young

From every room, hearts spoke through walls too thin to holdThe weight of what heardSo fires crept through spaces long left soft and blurredNotes slipped under the doorsFrozen to the floor we believed everythingLeaves blown beneath the eavesWhirring like a nest of wound-up starlingsWe were youngWe didn't heed those thingsIf birds were singing, we were lovedWe were youngLike the universeLike our mothers wereLike these wordsWe were youngWe didn't heed those thingsIf birds were singing, we were lovedWe were youngLike the universeLike our mothers wereLike these words