see, I wasn’t running from the war
back then. I was running from the peace.
The love I did not believe I was worth.
And because that lie held so much grief,
I don’t know that I ever got over you
as much as I got under
the engine of myself
to fix the machine of my love,
but it still runs way too much,
if you know what I mean,
and I know you know what I mean,
because this was not the first lifetime
we said goodbye
without wanting to say goodbye,
Was it?

— Andrea Gibson.