Memento Mori jazz swing

You set fresh flowers by the bathroom mirror

Lipstick capped beside the rusting sink

Calendar squares full of little appointments

None of them say how close you think

Memento mori

Write it small in the corner of the page

Under your stories

Every plan

Every promise that you made

Hold it gentle

Let it sharpen every color that you see

Memento mori

You remember

So you live a little free

Coffee cools beside an open laptop

Unread messages like scattered leaves

Heart keeps racing over something trivial

Then goes quiet when you finally breathe

Memento mori

Write it small in the corner of the page

Under your stories

Every plan

Every promise that you made

Hold it gentle

Let it brighten every bruise and memory

Memento mori

You remember

So you live a little free

One day the keys

Hang still on the hook

One day your name

Is a line in a book

So dance in the kitchen

Laugh till you’re hoarse

Kiss like you’re signing

Your name to the source (oh)

Memento mori

Say it soft like a secret to yourself

Not a sad warning

Just a hand pulling dust down from the shelf

Hold it gentle

Let it turn your every heartbeat into gold

Memento mori

You are fragile

You are burning

You are bold