April 27th, 2014
Five days, 120 hours, 72,000 mins, 432,000 seconds
I count until I see you next.
40 days, 960 hours no -
I forget how long since I last did.
4, 3, 2, 1 day
24 hours until your body touches mine for the first time in what feels like forever
He drives.
I stare at myself in the mirror touching my face my hair my skin
Will you know me?
Of course even strangers know love,
But who is stranger after all these days
I do not know
He drives.
I pace, back and forth like a ceaseless wave crashing
Through doors unlocked waiting and I wonder -
What is it you think of on those long stretches of highway?
Me, I hope
In a tunnel, my eyes like a clear light at the end
And I tell myself you did not think of me when you
Crash.
He drives,
Right into me, right into my soul;
I dream it, I must because I know you're not here, you're not in the tunnel you are
Nowhere
Everywhere
I wake,
In sweat and tears your body next to mine for what feels like the first in forever
May 5th, 2014
3 days, 72 hours, 4,320 minutes, 259,200 seconds
You have been home and yet
I still have the nightmare
Terrorized
By the idea
Of you not being
Mine.