damp light

now and then

i see you

in places we never visited

but that i am sure you would like

with very bitter coffee

and very dark chocolate

and where there is a song we both

haven’t heard yet

but we will look for frantically without success

until

years after in yet another yellow room

after the coffee has gone

the chocolate has spoiled

it will play again

with the many lives of us

echoing along

to the all of it found

in us

for us

because of us

during this short total forever

of

then and now

*

hate me

i share the sentiment

sometimes

for i liked you

too much

to share

*

morning rays hunting

the sweet love of time between us

could we be

despite the sun watching us age

into not us

despite the heat fumbling hairs

that tell the truth we cannot say

despite the night that will always yawn

to interrupt the beginning of this nothing

where you will eventually have gone

to where the sun does

when it doesn’t

anymore

after we couldn’t get any closer

before we did

and during the middle

that had been