if fire is your element,
and
this is your year,
and
if
you wanted to be an asteroid in the night galaxies
to find a place to land
and
if
she
was your rebellion,
and
if
your rebellion never meant that you could land on
me:
the water that could soothe you,
the ambush of esoterica,
the place where you could lay your paranoia to sleep,
the resistance you denied entrance to,
then -
you could have just said
so.