Flashes past of dreams remembered
I’ve met you before. I think.
We live and die each day and night
Out and in. In and out of existance.

Birds’ wings flutter in my heart in my mind
reminding me I’ve been here.
Tonight our infinities will brush past eachother.
Every minute is a lifetime, is an hour, is a year.

The heat crowds me.
My exhaustion drowns me.
I want to breath underwater.

Let me just rest my eyes.
Uno. Dos. Tres. Bang! Bang!

Shotguns jolt me up as I scramble to puzzle
the pieces back together.

Water spills over itself and to the floor.

An empty room in silence.

Waiting.

Uno. Due. Tre.

You will forget this. I promise.

I adore you.

But I’m just too tired.

Let me me slip into your spaces.
Blankets layered, fingers yearning.
Your warm neck calls to my wet cheek.
Beating hearts in tandem, softly.

Let us sleep soundly as we rarely do,
with gentle rhythms of restful breaths.
Peaceful pleasures are abounding
in this eternal space.

Let us remember the day we met
two hundred years before
each of us knew anything;
there are infinite lifetimes still waiting.

Let us be shy and scared and sweet.
I know, my insides are shaking too.
Your smile delivers a secret message
while leaning kisses on foreheads too soon.

Let me feel your weight release
like letting go in an ice cold river.
Let’s run until we lose our breath.
Tired, delighted, unknowing, and so much bolder.

Let’s let each other have these moments;
a story we will keep to ourselves…
You and I will recall one another
with sweetness and well wishes forever.

The cherry trees blossomed as you beckoned to me.
I leaned in and listened to the sound of new beginnings.
Whispers of wishes grew ten stories high.
And the green ivy trembled
silently.
dancing. We slumbered.
It was then I heard the dissonance but we were too far along.
You gave me a blindfold and sent me back where I belong.
The safest way to conquer these crescent eclipses
Is to backtrack…

Let me forget you ever existed.