Let me close this distance
'tween you an' I
admit vowels of pain
and loneliness
in waves
of absence
and regret
the urge of time pressing
on my bladder of love

not for your understanding
not for your satisfaction
I dance against that question

this violence of losing
signals
this railroading of yesterdays
rushing around
listening to itself
cry

you want in
don't you
you want to fit
the space given
the gift of here you go
gone for us

remains the ligament
of poetry
stringing me along
hopeless
for you
all for you