"Paperweight" by Lang Leav
I really thought I might be onto something with this song linking to, "Peter," possibly my all-time favorite T. Swift song. The line in the poem, "Just a year ago, I was walking on your rooftop, howling at your window, beating down your door" sounds an awful lot like Peter Pan. And an earlier line in the poem, "how can we ever be more if the romance refuses to die?" parallels with the song, "I won't confess that I waited, but I let the lamp burn / As the men masqueraded, I hoped you'd return." Both the poem and the song focus on a love that has gone but is not forgotten.
However, we've got some serious word choice in the poem that started to point me in the direction of, "The Prophecy." I should have caught the title of the poem, "Paperweight" as referencing the song, "I'm just a paperweight in shades of greige," but it slipped by me at first. The "howling at your window" was what tipped me off to the "howling like a wolf at the moon," in the song.
What a line to end the poem, "You said, stop trying to align the stars and wait - just wait for them to fall."
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