A1/9. Earthquake (Broadway). ISRC-CB-GWT-26-00267

Two years of voices through a screen, Your face was there, but never near. We worked through drafts and endless files, Then suddenly you were here. You sent a blank page one afternoon, It drifted down like some strange clue. I laughed and said, “What do you see?” You smiled and said, “What do you?” We let the blank page find its way We let the silence have its say And neither one of us could know What was about to change that day. Did you feel that Feel what The floor beneath us move I think the whole room's moving And suddenly we had nothing left to prove! The earthquake pulled us closer, Closer than we planned, The whole world shook around us, And I reached for your hand. Your heartbeat in the silence, Your fingers holding mine, For one impossible moment, The world forgot its time. Two years we'd talked of patents, Of claims and words and law. I knew your every argument, But never what your touch was like before. And then the lights were swaying, The ceiling seemed to bend. You looked at me I held you close And neither knew when it would end. No clever words could save us. No contract could explain. Just two people in the shaking, Holding on against the strain. The earthquake pulled us closer, Closer than we planned, Your heartbeat in the silence, Your fingers in my hand. A moment carved in dust and time, Before the world could move, Two people caught between the fear And something neither dared to prove. I wished that life were simple, That timing could be kind. But my work was somewhere distant, And another flight was mine. I wanted one more minute, One more moment standing there. But the room stopped shaking, And suddenly you weren't there. What do we call a moment That was never meant to stay What do we do with something That refuses to fade away Perhaps the earth was moving, Perhaps it moved us too. Perhaps some things are measured Not by what we say or do. The earthquake pulled us closer, Closer than we planned. The whole world shook around us, And I reached for your hand. For one impossible heartbeat, We stood outside of time. Two lives that crossed by accident, Then quietly untwined. Now only the wind remembers What trembled in our hands. Only the wind remembers The moment we could stand When the earth began to tremble, Something changed in you and me. A moment lost to distance A moment we can't name But every time the wind comes through, I hear that moment again. Only the wind remembers What trembled in our hands

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