smoke-sheet eyes, you questioned me behind a mesh divider all my hot hard "no"s all my parting throes - terrifying, endless, and gaping.
you questioned, and never answered you opened me like an underripe fig I didn't understand how a person could pull me apart too soon. Now I mould over, I bruise and hug the wet, black ground.
There is a time and a place for everything; in the absence of this, life falls out of balance and we succumb to the allure of alternate scenarios instead of crafting meaning in our current lives