Sunday, February 28, 2010

When We're Away

When our eyes were first formed,
the striated iris was solid.
We stared into each other’s deep, colored
eyes but there was no hole for the images
to penetrate.


We pierced a pupil with our sharpened

fingernail and all the world came flooding in.


Our hearts too, were once intact.

A balloon of blood floating in our chests

but there was no need to beat until your love

cracked it and a red river spilled into our starving

bodies.


Stars wouldn’t be as majestic

if there wasn’t so much emptiness

around each one.

A lifetime’s worth of space between the suns.


The million miles of highway

between where I sleep

and where you sleep

is what pulls

my daily momentum.


If we ever meet

then we may as well disintegrate.

It’s no longer necessary

once it’s complete.

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