Sometimes I Feel Waves From A Distance

they wrapped whatever
they could find
around your neck
wished you could
turn to clouds
and fly away.
pretended to have a different name
be someone else
just to adopt some faceless pose

you needed them more
than they needed you but
the sea rose and swallowed them
all
we
could all
float away on the seas of hands holding
us down
what would I have done
without you
if I had pretended
to be someone
else?

the lights fade
vans recede
reckless retunes returning
on some alien landscape
the streetlights empty
and dim
unseen,
running for the last
circle reducing its circumference
emitting interference
cut to some
analysis in the future will tackle
by mirroring or meaning
its some miracle
we find an occasional kind touch
a gentle word
the little things people stop to do that we
do for one another
that its always, always, always
nothing, even stardust will
separate this.
we are not separate.
we are.
us.
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No One Can Stop What You Started

this is when I was looking for you
the memories are hazy
some tiny amount of love
cut through the haze
but I wasn't sure
I should dare
my hands shake
above the keys
like stuttering
from some
unnamed, welcome
but well known
disease
upended in
trance
It seems I
am with
you,
this mental image
imaginary snapshot
taken back in time
how before "we never met" until
that point,
does it matter?
do I care?
in the bigger neon gleaming
suspended-by daydreams
moments
I don't seem to catch myself
naked, disillusioned
anymore...