Yeah, the voice is kind of similar
Yeah and the similarities dont stop there, as you'll see in the making of.
Anyway here's the full WoS poem, along with an explanation. It's been edited for spoilers
as much as possible.
This is the full poem, a sonnet, i wrote for Wounds of Sand. As you can see it was cut in half for the movie because otherwise the scene would have dragged on too long. They say that if you have to explain a poem, then youre not doing your job. Well, a poem can mean an infinite number of things to different people, so it's merely my interpretation and nothing more; i may have been the author, but i am not the voice.
Robert wanted a love story in the film that wasnt about "boy gets girl, loses girl, gets girl." [it should be noted that he (along with Mike) gave me the plot, and i put it in words (for the most part)] This guy had always been locked in the friends-only realm by this girl. So he never really lost her either because they had never gone out. And even the last, whether he got her, is not explicit but is left to the viewer to decide. This guy presumably finished this poem after finding out she really did have feelings for him.
Now onto the poem, which was inspired by the movie and not the other way around:
The first line should be pretty clear. It's asking whether two people can be more than just friends, in this case.
The second line goes back to a story i read about treating wounds with a sand-like substance, or sand itself, and noting the African desert, got me thinking about emotional wounds in the film as well. Most restrictively, it refers to whether these two people can make up and forgive each other. Of course, it can also have a literal interpretation, substituting flesh for sand.
The third and fourth lines are logically derived from the first two and require no explanation.
In the second stanza, the guy is saying (in a somewhat cheesy way) what would be the case if he would have to detail his love for her. "Bows of rain" are rainbows, scientifically speaking.
In the third stanza, considering she is in love with chemistry, the guy draws the analogy of two opposites: the proton and the electron. In its last line, the "cloud" is an electron cloud, and the Northern star is taken as being able to find one's destination.
Finally, in the couplet at the end, a "covalent pair" refers to a covalent bond, which in the chemical world is the strongest type of bond between electrons. And thus the couplet is set up so as to shake her heart two-fold.
Wounds of SandCan two close hearts pump more than just red blood?
Can wounds of sand, deprived of form, be healed?
[For this] To be is like a boat afloat a flood,
To live and not to drown, a divine shield.
If you would read the pages of my love,
A quicker task rounding this Earth would be.
Cellophane bows of rain would lift thee up,
As words like gentle doves would sing to thee.
Like proton and electron we have been
Going round and different ways, never far,
Theme parks to parties, New York to Berlin,
And now the cloud breaks, shows a northern star.
When chemicals breathe love, when friendship ends,
A covalent pair springs and romance begins.
