but bit

the following is just a little bit of a lot.

*

you are weird

but

so is everyone else

especially those

who say they aren’t

*

i believe

i have loved you

since the beginning

of since

and everything since

then

perhaps

we were

grafted from the same space

the same star

the same whole

that split to lead

back to us

believing again

*

i ask

if it were the end

of all

where would you

rest

knowing that

we already have ended

all of it

and it rests

worse than the

dead

asking nothing

but knowing

too much

*

love those

who have not

loved those

who have

*

the love

was long

the forgetting

was short

and i try

to think what

remains in the middle

besides what was