night before the night before when you when
you were following the one following you,
and in the moonlight, your eyes glistened
light bounced into the darkness around you
and died an inconsequential death as it
wrapped itself around the wall of the alcove
in which you were standing... and I, across
the way in another alcove watching another
day being given birth... a hollow victory for
those who love the night and it absences...
clarity of the moment entered our minds as
we shared each other's trauma and the failure
our exposure gave the other side... we were
like two peas in a pod, and the pod hanging
on Apa branch that broke loose from the tree,
had fallen to the ground, cracked open the
pod, allowing the peas to escape... one
rolled to the left the other to the right and
the third one managed to remain steady,
and when the evening exposed itself to
the morning sun, we were nowhere to be
seen and no one knew that we had been
there except the dust we left on our collars.
April 12, 2024
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